Germany said Monday it was investigating potential foreign influence in a series of recent attacks after a media report alleged that actors in Russia may have played a role in some of them.
The majority of schools in the western German city of Duisburg will stay closed on Monday, police announced, after a local school received 'threatening letters' from suspected right-wing extremists.
Police are ramping up speed controls on roads in 14 German states this week in an effort to reduce traffic fatalities. Here's where controls are expected and the basic rules around speeding.
Statistics compiled by the German police suggest violent crime is on the rise while overall crime is decreasing. Here are the latest figures and what they tell us about crime in Germany.
A former member of Germany's far-left Baader-Meinhof gang, who was arrested last year after more than 30 years on the run, went on trial on Tuesday for a series of armed robberies.
Several employees of Munich immigration office are suspected of handing out German residence and work permits in exchange for bribes. Here's what to know about the unfolding scandal.
A German court on Thursday jailed four members of an extremist group linked to the "Citizens of the Reich" movement for plotting a coup and to kidnap the health minister.
A 40-year-old German man has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately ramming his car into a crowd in the southwestern city of Mannheim, killing two and injuring 11 others. Here's what we know so far about the suspect and the alleged attack.
A man drove a car into a crowd in Germany on Monday, killing two people and injuring 11, police said, adding that a 40-year-old German man was arrested over the suspected attack.
Following recent terror attacks in Germany, police are stepping up security controls for carnival season - but say there is no reason for festival-goers to worry.
After US Vice President JD Vance took aim at Germany’s ‘hate speech police’, we take a look at the law. Here’s the extent to which freedom of speech is protected versus what is strictly not allowed.
A Syrian man arrested after a stabbing attack at Berlin's Holocaust memorial that wounded a Spanish man had been harbouring a "plan to kill Jews", police and prosecutors said Saturday.
German police said Friday they had arrested a male suspect over a stabbing that badly wounded a 30-year-old Spanish man at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial near the US embassy.
Police have arrested a suspect over a plot to bomb a German asylum seeker shelter, prosecutors said Thursday, amid an inflamed debate on migration ahead of a general election.
With Germany reeling from another deadly knife attack by a migrant suspect, experts warned that the inability of asylum seekers to access mental health services has added to their existing vulnerabilities.
After the fatal knife attack in Bavaria on a kindergarten group by a rejected asylum seeker, politicians in Germany have been vowing to toughen up migration rules with the CDU leader promising a crackdown if he becomes chancellor.
A knife attacker killed a two-year-old child and a man on Wednesday in a public park in Germany, where police arrested an Afghan man as the main suspect.
The suspect in a deadly car ramming attack on a German Christmas market was mentally unwell, "massively Islamophobic and close to right-wing extremist ideologies", Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Thursday.
The death toll from a car ramming attack on a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg in December has risen to six, prosecutors said on Monday.
Five people died across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured from accidents linked to the powerful fireworks Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the new year, police said in a preliminary count.
The German government, under fire for failing to prevent a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market, argued on Monday that the tragedy would have been hard to prevent and said that the suspect appeared to be mentally disturbed.
German security and intelligence chiefs are due on Monday to face questioning about the car-ramming attack that killed five people and wounded more than 200 at a Christmas market 10 days ago.
Germany's president said Tuesday that a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market had cast a "dark shadow" over this year's celebrations but urged the nation not to be driven apart by extremists.
