Four suspected Islamist on trial for plotting to kill Americans in Germany discussed carrying out bombings on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, police said Wednesday.
An Islamist video threatening attacks on European allies of the United States has surfaced on the Internet, German police said Friday, but US experts said it was not new.
Germany said Friday it was worried by the mounting influence of the Taliban in Pakistan and urged Islamabad to deal "firmly" with Islamist militants in the country.
A 77-year-old German tourist has been released by terrorists in Mali after spending almost three months as their captive, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday evening.
Four suspected Islamic militants accused of plotting attacks on US citizens in Germany aimed for bloodshed on the scale of the 9/11 attacks, prosecutors said as their trial opened here Wednesday.
Ten Augsburg postal workers were injured on the job by a mysterious blue powder on Tuesday evening. Bavarian police evacuated the building and then found a similar powder on a nearby street.
Germany is home to several hundred "potentially dangerous Islamists", including a hard core of around 100, a senior Interior Ministry official said on Saturday.
Germany and the United States signed a new government accord in Berlin on Monday to cooperate closely on national security research, the Research Ministry reported.
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Up to 140 people from Germany have attended terrorist training camps and 60 have returned to the country, government officials told <i>Berliner Morgenpost</i> this week.
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Over the three days of the Munich Security Conference, 17 people were arrested, police reported on Sunday. The offences ranged from slander to battery to the contravention of Germany's laws of assembly.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on Sunday at a major security conference in Munich on all Taliban not linked to al Qaeda or terrorism to return home, as part of a process of reconciliation ahead of elections in August.
Washington is ready to "press the reset button" in strained relations with Moscow, US Vice President Joe Biden said in a major foreign-policy address on Saturday at the international security conference in Munich.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer criticised European allies Saturday at the security conference in Munich for refusing to send more troops to Afghanistan to match new efforts planned by the United States.
The Bavarian capital Munich, home to the biggest community of ethnic Uighurs outside China, has offered to host the 17 members of the ethinic minority group held at the US terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay.
The inauguration of a new, more internationally accepted US president won’t help ease tensions with terrorists, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble told the <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> on Friday.
A French court on Thursday sentenced a German Al-Qaeda militant to 18 years after finding him guilty of plotting the 2002 suicide bombing of a Tunisian synagogue that left 21 dead.
A CIA official on Monday warned that the US intelligence agency had received indications al Qaeda was planning to launch terrorist attacks in Germany with the aim of influencing the country's general election this autumn.
After recent terrorist threats against Germany, the police union GdP has warned of poor security across the country, daily <i>Ruhr Nachrichten</i> reported on Monday.
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday he is expecting a formal American request soon for Germany to take in inmates from the US terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Jörg Ziercke, head Germany's BKA federal police agency for criminal investigation issued a warning on Saturday that Islamist extremists may attempt terrorist attacks ahead of the general election on September 27 in order to influence the outcome.
An Islamist terrorist video that turned up on the internet this week is a sign of intensifying threats against Germany, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Wednesday.
