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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

German Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Joining ISIS

German police in Munich, Germany, January 1, 2016. (Reuters)

Federal prosecutors have arrested a German woman on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and for allegedly joining the ISIS group in Syria.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that Sibel H., whose last name was not given in line with privacy laws, also faces war crimes and weapons charges, reported The Associated Press.

They allege she traveled to Syria with her husband in 2016 to join ISIS, and ended up in Mosul, Iraq.

Prosecutors say they lived in homes seized by ISIS and she ran the household to support her husband's work as a nurse in an ISIS hospital.

As the terrorist group began to collapse, they fled through Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and were captured by an armed faction in 2017.

Prosecutors refused to provide further information on her or her husband.

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