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Chaos in Syria: Where are German 'Islamic State' members?

Summary by Deutsche Welle
Werner Pleil has no idea where his son is. The last that the retired photographer from the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg heard, his son Dirk was in a prison in northeastern Syria. Dirk joined the extremist "Islamic State" group in Syria in 2015 but was arrested in 2017 and has been imprisoned there — held without trial — ever since. Dirk likely has tuberculosis and his father has been trying to get him brought back to Germany, f…

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Chaos in Syria: Where are German 'Islamic State' members?

Werner Pleil has no idea where his son is. The last that the retired photographer from the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg heard, his son Dirk was in a prison in northeastern Syria. Dirk joined the extremist "Islamic State" group in Syria in 2015 but was arrested in 2017 and has been imprisoned there — held without trial — ever since. Dirk likely has tuberculosis and his father has been trying to get him brought back to Germany, f…

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Deutsche Welle broke the news in Bonn, Germany on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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