German prosecutors said Friday they had filed charges against a Syrian youth and alleged Islamic State group supporter linked to a 2024 attack plot on a Vienna concert by US pop megastar Taylor Swift.
The US and Canada have updated their travel advice for Germany ahead of the summer season citing the threat of possible terrorist attacks. The UK and Australia also urge travellers to be on their guard.
A Syrian man suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing three people and wounding ten more in a stabbing spree at a German summer festival in Solingen last year.
The suspected perpetrator of a deadly ramming at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday is a 50-year-old Saudi refugee from a Shiite family who declared himself an atheist and "anti-Islam".
First and second division football matches in Germany will kick off this weekend with a minute's silence in tribute to the victims of the attack in Magdeburg, the German Football League (DFL) announced in a statement.
Shocked survivors recounted the moment a car attack on Friday turned a glittering Christmas market in eastern Germany into a scene of death and carnage.
Many of Germany's famous Christmas markets have opened for the season. But officials have warned visitors to remain vigilant over the possibility of terror - although there are no indications of attacks.
A Libyan suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin and links to the Islamic State (IS) group will appear before a judge on Sunday, German prosecutors said.
German authorities said Friday they had arrested a 27-year-old Syrian man who allegedly planned an Islamist attack on army soldiers using two machetes in Bavaria.
Investigators seized electronic devices at the home of a young Austrian who fired shots near Israel's Munich consulate, but found no weapons or Islamic State group propaganda material, authorities said Friday.
German police on Tuesday said they had shot dead a man suspected of attacking passers-by with knives in the western town of Moers, days after a deadly knife attack in nearby Solingen.
The German government on Wednesday agreed measures making it easier to deport foreigners who glorify acts of terror after a surge in online hate posts during the Gaza war.
Police have detained two teenage girls and two teenage boys in western Germany on suspicions they were planning an Islamist attack, prosecutors said Friday, with churches or synagogues as possible targets.
Following the recent terrorist attack in Moscow, France has shifted onto the highest possible alert level for terrorist threats. Why doesn't Germany use a similar system - and how does it alert people instead?
The threat posed by Islamists is great, authorities say, and criminals, hooligans and other violent criminals are also a concern. So there will be heightened controls at Germany's borders for Euro 2024.
German police on Thursday arrested three suspected members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, accused of making preparations for an attack against Jewish targets in Europe, prosecutors said.
Police in Germany are on heightened alert for terror threats after a German tourist was killed in Paris over the weekend, and in the aftermath of the October 7th attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians.
German police said Tuesday they had detained a 28-year-old Syrian man in relation to a suspected jihadist plan to use a homemade bomb against civilian targets.
Five years after a truck ploughed into a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany will hold a ceremony on Sunday to honour the victims of the deadliest Islamist attack perpetrated on its soil.
On the second anniversary of a far-right terror attack at a German synagogue, the German Jewish Council has warned that the government needs to make more efforts to stop the spread of anti-Semitism online.
German investigators said Tuesday they suspected an Islamic extremist motive behind a knife attack last week by a Somali man that left three women dead in the southern city of Würzburg.
Investigators were racing Saturday to pinpoint the motive of a man who went on a knife rampage in the German city of Wuerzburg, killing three people and leaving five seriously injured.
