BERLIN: German police on Tuesday carried out sweeping raids across 10 states in a probe against an Islamist group suspected of propagating hate and inciting 140 youths to fight alongside jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

The group called The True Religion (Die wahre Religion) is now also banned, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.

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