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Alleged Islamist arrested as police seize large arms stock in Berlin raids

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:35:31 +0200

Berlin police said on Wednesday they had arrested an alleged Islamist militant during overnight raids and seized a cache of weapons but found no evidence of an imminent attack.

Berlin drug raids lead to arrest of four Islamist militants

Wed, 24 May 2017 19:32:43 +0200

German police said they arrested nine drug trafficking suspects, including four suspected Islamist militants, in early morning raids Wednesday.

300 officers raid mosque and suspected 'hotspot for radical Islamists'

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:55:25 +0100

Police in Lower Saxony launched a major raid on Tuesday morning on the organization "German-speaking Islamic Circle", which officials believe to be a "hotspot for the radical Salafist scene".

Germany's Islamist scene growing: security chief

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:48:38 +0100

Germany's domestic security chief warned on Sunday that the country's radical Islamist scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralized, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations.

Half of returning jihadists still devoted to cause: report

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:20:40 +0100

A new government report shows that a quarter of those who return to Germany from fighting in Syria or Iraq cooperate with German authorities, while half remain loyal to their cause.

German Islamist a prime suspect in Paris attacks

Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:32:45 +0100

A German Islamist features on a list of the 16 most-wanted people being hunted by police in the wake of the Paris attacks, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.

Two men arrested in Berlin police terror raids

Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:51:10 +0100

Police arrested two men after raids at two Berlin locations on Thursday afternoon after tip-offs about known Islamists believed to pose a threat of violence.

Interior ministry bans Salafist group

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:12:31 +0100

Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière ordered the dissolving of salafist organisation Tauhid Germany on Thursday, saying that the group radicalized youth and encouraged them to travel to Syria to fight for Isis.

Cops fear clashes as anti-Islam demos grow

Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:14:00 +0100

Federal Security Service chief Hans-Georg Maaßen has warned Germany could see confrontations between Salafists and people drawn to right-wing, xenophobic politics.

Islamist heads to Syria despite electronic tag

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:28:00 +0200

An Islamist from central Germany managed to travel to Syria to join jihadists despite being monitored by security services with an electronic tag, according to reports on Tuesday.

Trapped Siemens workers rescued in Iraq

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:09:00 +0200

Fifty foreign technicians including eight German nationals working for Siemens have been flown to safety from northern Iraq after becoming encircled by Sunni Islamist militant forces.

200 Islamist fighters at Syria 'German Camp'

Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:46:00 +0200

German Islamists have set up their own camp in northern Syria with around 200 fighters, according to a report released on Sunday.

Raids target 'model plane bomb plotters'

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:44:00 +0200

German authorities said they had uncovered a terrorist bomb attack plot to use remote controlled model planes, and carried out raids targeting seven people alleged to be involved in the Islamist plan.

Tunisia jails topless protesters for 4 months

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:34:00 +0200

A German activist with radical women's protest group Femen was handed a four-month jail sentence along with two Frenchwomen by a Tunisian court on Wednesday for staging a topless anti-Islamist demonstration last month, their lawyer said.

German authorities worry about growing Salafism

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:41:00 +0200

German authorities have voiced concern over the growing number of ultra-conservative Islamic Salafists in the country, some of whom are swelling jihadist ranks abroad, while warning of an increasingly violent German extreme right.

Police warn against high-tech Islamist attacks

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:50:00 +0200

The Federal Criminal Police Office is warning of a new type of Islamist terrorist threat from the air that could attack both passenger and cargo planes as well as airport facilities, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported.

Topless feminists protest Islamist oppression

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:37:00 +0200

Bare-breasted activists staged rallies in front of mosques and Tunisian embassies in Berlin and across Europe Thursday against what they called an Islamist crackdown on Arab women's rights.

Police mount nationwide raid against Islamists

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:25:00 +0100

Hundreds of German police officers raided suspected Islamist extremists in several states on Wednesday, aiming to confiscate possessions and funds belonging to three now banned groups.

Syrian war lures German Islamists

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:29:00 +0100

The ongoing civil war in Syria is reportedly attracting a growing number of German Islamists.

Online Merkel death threat video removed

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:30:00 +0100

A radical Islamist jihadist platform hosting death threats against Chancellor Angela Merkel and calls to attack Germany has been taken down by a blogging site for breach of terms, a newspaper reported on Monday.