Foreign Minister Steinmeier said Germany would not be participating in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, and also said his country had not been asked to do so. The Interior Ministry reportedly has “imminent” plans to ban the Islamic State, which has attacked Yazidis in Herford and an asylum home in Berlin-Marie Felde and conducted other activities in Germany also. A government study of German jihadists found that 60 percent are German-born, about 20 percent are converts to Islam, 11 percent are women, most were radicalized in Salafist mosques, and about a third have returned to Germany.
