Police Tuesday arrested two suspected Syrian jihadists, one of them an alleged member of terror group Isis accused of slitting the throat of a regime soldier, prosecutors said. The alleged former Isis member, identified only as 30-year-old Abdulmalk A., was arrested in Berlin, and his 23-year-old compatriot Mousa H. A. in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Tabqa sits on the Euphrates River and on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometres (35 miles) west of Raqa, the Syrian heart of Isis's so-called caliphate. The Syrian war has claimed more than 320,000 lives since it began with anti-government protests in March 2011. Germany has taken in more than one million asylum seekers since 2015, many of them Syrian refugees.

Source: The Local May 09, 2017 11:26 UTC