\n Dutch police on Tuesday arrested a suspected security official from the Islamic State group suspected of links to war crimes in Syria, prosecutors said.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 37-year-old Syrian was held in the southwestern village of Arkel, where he was living after being granted asylum, a prosecution service statement said.\n<\/p>\n
\n He \"is said to have played an important role in the Syrian civil war within the terrorist organisations Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State\", prosecutors said.\n<\/p>\n
\n They did not name the suspect, who is due to appear in court in The Hague on Friday.\n<\/p>\n
\n He allegedly operated for both IS and Jabhat al-Nusra in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the south of Damascus.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"It is suspected that between 2015 and 2018, the man held a managerial position in the security service of IS,\" the statement said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Prosecutors said it was believed that \"from his position at IS he also contributed to the war crimes that the organisation committed in Syria.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n The man applied for asylum in 2019 and then moved to Arkel a year later.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dutch investigators started looking into his case \"after information was received about his past\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The Dutch have made a series of arrests linked to Syria in recent years, including both people who sought asylum in the Netherlands and Dutch nationals who went to Syria to fight.\n<\/p>\n
\n Syria's war is estimated to have killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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