A German court sentenced the wife of
rapper-turned-jihadist to three and a half years in prison for having taken part in the enslavement of a Yazidi girl in Syria.
German federal prosecutors said
Wednesday they were investigating an alleged member of the Islamic State terrorist group suspected of a series of acid and arson attacks, and of
planning killings with a gun and explosives.
German police have arrested five Tajik
nationals on suspicion that they were members of an Islamic State group terror
cell that had been planning attacks on US forces stationed in Germany,
prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Monday handed over four children linked with the Islamic State group to Germany, their first such repatriation to the European country, an official said.
German parents and relatives of Islamic State militants demonstrated Monday outside the foreign ministry, urging the government to repatriate wives and children of fighters held in Syria.
Germany has repatriated from Iraq several children of jailed jihadists, the foreign ministry said Friday, as the war against the so-called Islamic State (IS) group draws to a close.
Germany plans to strip dual nationals who
fight for a foreign militant group of their German citizenship, the government
said Monday, as Western nations eye the return of IS jihadists warily.
US-backed Kurdish-led forces have detained German jihadist Martin Lemke after he fled the last pocket held by
the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, two of his wives said Thursday.
Germany warned Thursday that US President Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria could endanger a battle against Islamic State militants and jeopardize achievements on the front.
Germany’s federal prosecutor's office has found no evidence that an arson attack and hostage-taking at Cologne's Hauptbahnhof, or main station, in October was an Islamist extremist attack.
From northern Syria, Muslim convert Sufyan is imploring his native Germany to take him back, having been captured years after joining the Islamic State group's so-called "caliphate".
German police on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian suspected jihadist already in custody over a foiled biological attack with the deadly poison ricin, prosecutors said.
A German court on Monday sentenced three Syrians to years-long jail terms for belonging to an Islamic State "sleeper cell" that has been linked to the Paris jihadist attackers, local media said.
Germany has remanded in custody a 17-year-old Iraqi suspected of having planned an explosives attack for the Islamic State jihadist group in Germany or Britain, prosecutors said on Thursday.
German police on Tuesday arrested
six Syrian refugees suspected of preparing a terror attack in the name of the Islamic State jihadist group, prosecutors said.
German prosecutors said Thursday they had arrested an alleged Algerian Isis group militant who had had contact with the late ringleader of the November Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
The maker of a hard-hitting television drama about a notorious wave of racist murders across Germany has compared the neo-Nazi group behind them to a homegrown Isis who are far from defeated.
The letter combination IS was once just the simple third person singular of the verb to be in English. But it has taken on such a sinister new meaning in recent times that a town in central Germany has decided enough is enough.
German intelligence warned Tuesday that the number of Islamic extremists in the country had increased sharply in recent months and expressed serious concern that they were recruiting among refugees.
German police are investigating an asylum-seeker on suspicion that he fought for the Islamic State group in Syria, newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
The German government has issued more severe warnings about travelling to Turkey after a string of terror attacks in the south of the country, and as Ankara intensifies conflict against two militias in Syria and Iraq.
A 24-year-old German suspected of joining Islamic State jihadists in Syria was arrested Saturday, months after he returned from the war-ravaged country.
MPs in the Bundestag will vote in January on a controversial plan to send 100 soldiers to Iraq to train Kurdish fighters battling terrorist group Isis.
On a dusty firing range outside the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil, peshmerga fighter Ardalan Aziz Hamad hefts his new German-made assault rifle and is clearly impressed.
