Around two hundred jihadists who were involved in wars in Iraq and Syria have returned to Germany, posing terrorist attack risks to the country, a top German intelligence official said on Wednesday.

"We have to assume that we will also become targets of terrorist attacks, and we must adjust," said Hans-Georg Maassen, the president of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

According to Maassen, about 70 of the returnees were suspected of participating in acts of war and serious crimes in the conflict zones.

Surveillance, however, has been difficult. "Round-the-clock observation is hardly possible," Maassen said at an European police conference in Berlin, adding that there was no evidence of specific attack plans.

The German domestic intelligence authority estimated that six hundred young people have so far traveled to Iraq and Syria where the Islamic State (IS) is seizing territory. Among them, around 70 have been killed. Endit

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