Two suspected Islamists in the German state of Thuringia have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack with firearms near the Swedish parliament, a spokeswoman for the German prosecutors’ office said on Tuesday. The two Afghan nationals were detained near the city of Gera, 85 kilometres east of the state capital Erfurt. The spokeswoman said the pair were alleged to have received instructions from an offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group last year called the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), based in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The attack was intended to be a reaction to the K…