A suspected German jihadist went on trial Tuesday for war crimes in Syria after appearing in photographs holding the severed heads of two victims of the conflict, AFP reports.
At the first trial in Germany for war crimes committed in Syria's five-year conflict, Aria Ladjedvardi, 21, told the court he "didn't want to be in" the incriminating pictures, and that he "could not imagine that they would be circulated on social media".