https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20201002/jihadists-wife-sentenced-in-germany-for-enslaving-yazidi-girl Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:53:34 +0200 jihadists-wife-sentenced-in-germany-for-enslaving-yazidi-girl 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20200520/germany-charges-suspected-is-member-over-attacks Wed, 20 May 2020 18:29:33 +0200 germany-charges-suspected-is-member-over-attacks 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20200415/germany-arrests-five-tajiks-in-suspected-is-terror-cell-prosecutors Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:53:39 +0200 germany-arrests-five-tajiks-in-suspected-is-terror-cell-prosecutors 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20190819/kurds-in-syria-hand-over-four-is-linked-children-to-germany Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:44:09 +0200 kurds-in-syria-hand-over-four-is-linked-children-to-germany 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20190429/relatives-of-german-is-fighters-stage-protest-in-berlin Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:24:22 +0200 relatives-of-german-is-fighters-stage-protest-in-berlin 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20190405/islamic-state-children-repatriated-to-germany-from-iraq Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:08:06 +0200 islamic-state-children-repatriated-to-germany-from-iraq 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20190304/germany-to-strip-dual-national-militia-fighters-of-citizenship Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:02:47 +0100 germany-to-strip-dual-national-militia-fighters-of-citizenship 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20190201/german-jihadist-detained-in-syria-by-forces-according-to-his-wives Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:34:03 +0100 german-jihadist-detained-in-syria-by-forces-according-to-his-wives 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20181220/us-syria-pullout-could-hurt-fight-against-is-germany Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:52:09 +0100 us-syria-pullout-could-hurt-fight-against-is-germany 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20181214/no-evidence-of-terrorist-motive-in-cologne-hostage-taker Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:00:45 +0100 no-evidence-of-terrorist-motive-in-cologne-hostage-taker 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". https://www.thelocal.de/20181023/german-is-shoemaker-pleads-to-come-home-from-syria Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:04:44 +0200 german-is-shoemaker-pleads-to-come-home-from-syria 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20180724/germany-arrests-wife-in-foiled-biological-attack-plot Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:40:03 +0200 germany-arrests-wife-in-foiled-biological-attack-plot 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20180313/three-syrians-jailed-over-is-sleeper-cell Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:56:02 +0100 three-syrians-jailed-over-is-sleeper-cell 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20180308/teenager-held-for-bomb-attack-plot-in-germany-or-britain Thu, 08 Mar 2018 12:32:45 +0100 teenager-held-for-bomb-attack-plot-in-germany-or-britain 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20171121/six-syrians-arrested-for-planning-terror-attack-in-germany Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:35:43 +0100 six-syrians-arrested-for-planning-terror-attack-in-germany 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20160707/germany-arrests-is-suspect-close-to-paris-attacks-planner Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:24:08 +0200 germany-arrests-is-suspect-close-to-paris-attacks-planner The Syrian men arrested last week for allegedly plotting to attack Düsseldorf for Isis may be linked to a sleeper cell of 20 terrorists. https://www.thelocal.de/20160608/would-be-dsseldorf-attackers-linked-to-refugee-sleeper-cell-isis Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:03:43 +0200 would-be-dsseldorf-attackers-linked-to-refugee-sleeper-cell-isis 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20160425/neo-nazis-are-rooted-in-the-heart-of-our-society Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:43:18 +0200 neo-nazis-are-rooted-in-the-heart-of-our-society 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20160415/is-banned-from-licence-plates-to-stop-islamists Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:17:12 +0200 is-banned-from-licence-plates-to-stop-islamists 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150922/police-raid-berlin-sites-over-links-to-islamic-state Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:09:49 +0200 police-raid-berlin-sites-over-links-to-islamic-state