BERLIN - German police Tuesday arrested three men with forged Syrian passports accused of being Islamic State (IS) militants and labelled a possible "sleeper cell" with links to the Paris attackers. The men were identified only as Mahir al-H., 17, Ibrahim M., 18, and Mohamed A., 26, in a statement issued by federal prosecutors. "According to what we know so far, the investigation of the (federal criminal office) BKA points to links to the attackers of Paris from November 2015," de Maiziere told a press conference. They were detained at three refugee shelters in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein by more than 200 commandos of the federal police, BKA and police forces of several states. In July, Germany suffered two bloody attacks claimed by IS, which were carried out by migrants.

Source: Bangkok Post September 13, 2016 11:26 UTC