Swedish IS Terrorist Osama Krayem Faces War Crimes Charges in Syria

The Swedish IS-terrorist Osama Krayem will next week be prosecuted for serious terrorist offenses and war crimes in Syria.

» Published: May 22 2025

Swedish IS Terrorist Osama Krayem Faces War Crimes Charges in Syria
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Krayem is serving long prison terms for terrorist acts in Paris and Brussels 2016. He is sentenced to 30 years, respectively life imprisonment, for these acts.

On Tuesday, May 27, Krayem will also be prosecuted for the execution of a Jordanian fighter pilot in Syria around the turn of the year 2014/2015, writes the prosecution authority in a press release.

Krayem is suspected of, together with other IS individuals, having locked the pilot in a cage, which was then set on fire.

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