Stockholm, May 22, 2025 (AFP) - Sweden to charge jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria

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Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to indict a convicted Swedish jihadist on charges including the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot burned to death in a cage in Syria. Sweden's Prosecution Authority said in a statement it planned to charge a 32-year-old Swedish citizen on May 27 with "serious war crimes and terrorist crimes in Syria". The trial is scheduled to begin on June 4. Prosecutors did not name their suspect in the statement, but Sweden......

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