UN observers welcome their comrades upon their return from al-Haffa, in northern Syria, to Damascus, Syria on Saturday, June 16, 2012.

A Syrian suspected of being among militant who kidnapped a U.N. peacekeeper in Damascus in 2013 has been arrested over the “war crime,” Germany’s federal prosecutor said Friday.

The 24-year-old man named as Suliman A. -S. is believed to be a member of a branch of the Al-Nusra Front militant group, the prosecutor said.

Investigations found that he had participated in the kidnapping on February 17, 2013 and was “involved in guarding the kidnapped victim between March and June 2013.”

He is “suspected of an attack during Syria’s civil war against a person, who was involved in a peacekeeping mission under the United Nations Charter, and was therefore entitled to protection,” said the prosecutor.

“The arrest warrant against him is on suspicion of a war crime against a humanitarian operation,” the prosecutor added.

The peacekeeper with the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in the Golan Heights, whose nationality was not revealed, managed to free himself in October 2013. It was unclear why he had been in Damascus.

Two groups of UNDOF peacekeepers were also abducted in the same year in the Golan Heights ceasefire zone, the first comprising of 21 soldiers, and the second four. All were Filipinos and subsequently freed.

UNDOF, which has been in the Golan Heights since 1974, had about 1,000 troops and civilian staff in 2013. The 917 troops from Austria, India, the Philippines, Morocco and Moldova carried only very light arms.

In the wake of the spate of kidnappings, Austria withdrew its force over security reasons.

Related articles across the web

• Archaeologists Make INCREDIBLE Biblical Discovery Where Jesus Performed 1 of His Miracles
• ISRAEL's al-Qaeda Rescue Program: 'Openly' Helping Syrian Terrorists Trying to Overthrow Assad!
• Israel Supports Islamic Terrorists
• Taoiseach to visit Irish troops in Syria during Middle East trip
• Czech Lawmakers Reject EU Labels for Israeli Products Made Beyond 1967 Lines
• Israel should give back the Golan
• Hugh Naylor of the Washington Post: on Israel
• The UN General Assembly: Prejudice without pride
• David Singer: Israel - European Union In State Of Disunion
• Israel's al-Qaeda Rescue Program