A German man held hostage for about a year in Syria by fighters of Islamic State was released in June after the government did a deal with the militant group, die Welt am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday. Citing German security sources, the newspaper said the Islamists, who last week released a video showing the beheading of an American journalist, were given something for the man's release but did not specify the nature of the trade-off. The foreign ministry refused to comment on the report and the interior ministry was unavailable. The newspaper said that a 27-year-old man from the eastern state of Brandenburg was kidnapped by IS fighters while travelling in Syria in 2013.
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