U.S. holding a German in Afghanistan, Berlin says

DORTMUND, Germany (Reuters) - U.S. armed forces are holding a German citizen in detention in Afghanistan as a terror suspect, Germany's foreign minister said on Saturday.

"I can confirm to you that a German national is in American custody in Afghanistan," Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Reuters TV in Dortmund, western Germany.

"We are making an effort with the American government for a release," Steinmeier added.

The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported earlier that the citizen was a 41-year-old German man and that, to the knowledge of the German security authorities, he posed no terror threat.