German police on Tuesday (May 9th) arrested two suspected Syrian extremists, one of them an alleged member of the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) accused of slitting the throat of a regime soldier, AFP reported.
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, prosecutors said.
Both men allegedly first joined al-Nusra Front (ANF) in 2012, with Abdulmalk A. commanding fighters.
ANF, an al-Qaeda affiliate, is now calling itself the Fatah al-Sham Front.
In mid-2013, Abdulmalk A. switched allegiance to ISIS in his eastern home city of Deir Ezzor, joined its combat operations and then was tasked with administering the ISIS-captured al-Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest.