Overview
- Prosecutors in Naumburg accuse the Iraqi national of joining the Islamic State by early summer 2014 and remaining with the group until autumn 2016.
- The indictment states he swore loyalty to the then ISIS leader and served in a military role, including as a deputy battalion commander in a combat unit's leadership staff.
- Prosecutors allege he took part in combat operations, though the indictment does not detail specific individual actions.
- The case is being tried under strict security in the high-security wing of the Halle justice center before the state-protection senate.
- He arrived in Germany in 2022, his asylum application was rejected in 2024, and he previously told authorities he had fled to Turkey in 2014 to avoid forced recruitment after demands on his family.