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 Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison. https://www.thelocal.de/20180301/jihadist-who-attacked-hamburg-shoppers-with-knife-given-life-sentence Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:22:49 +0100 jihadist-who-attacked-hamburg-shoppers-with-knife-given-life-sentence A German court Wednesday ruled that a Tunisian suspect in the 2015 jihadist attack on a Tunis museum can be extradited, provided he won't face the death penalty or ill-treatment. https://www.thelocal.de/20170406/germany-clears-extradition-of-tunisia-jihadist-suspect Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:55:41 +0200 germany-clears-extradition-of-tunisia-jihadist-suspect On Tuesday morning German police raided 200 addresses connected to a now-banned Islamist movement. Ibrahim Abou-Nagie, the movement's founder, has taken it around the world. https://www.thelocal.de/20161115/the-preacher-at-the-heart-of-nationwide-salafist-network Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:30:51 +0100 the-preacher-at-the-heart-of-nationwide-salafist-network A German court on Thursday jailed three young German men for up to four and half years for travelling to Syria where they teamed up with jihadists. https://www.thelocal.de/20161104/three-germans-jailed-for-joining-jihadists-in-syria Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:08:07 +0100 three-germans-jailed-for-joining-jihadists-in-syria Police have arrested five suspected members of an Isis cell in Spain, Belgium and Germany that spread propaganda for the group online, the Spanish interior ministry said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160928/man-arrested-in-wuppertal-as-part-of-european-isis-raids Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:39:14 +0200 man-arrested-in-wuppertal-as-part-of-european-isis-raids German federal prosecutors said Monday they had brought charges against a 16-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed a policeman in February in an operation for Isis. https://www.thelocal.de/20160829/isis-teen-who-stabbed-cop-charged-with-attempted-murder Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:21:50 +0200 isis-teen-who-stabbed-cop-charged-with-attempted-murder German citizens with dual nationality who fight for a terror group should be stripped of their German citizenship, the interior minister said Thursday, unveiling tough new measures after two attacks by Islamic State militants. https://www.thelocal.de/20160811/germany-mulls-stripping-citizenship-from-jihadists Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:22:01 +0200 germany-mulls-stripping-citizenship-from-jihadists German political leaders were quick to say the Nice rampage was an attack on us as well. This plays into fears about refugees and justifies clampdowns on individual liberty, argues Jörg Luyken. https://www.thelocal.de/20160718/nice-was-an-attack-on-france-not-on-germany-isis Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:17:55 +0200 nice-was-an-attack-on-france-not-on-germany-isis A teacher and two students from Berlin were among the victims of a terror attack that killed over 80 people in southern France on Thursday evening, Berlin media report. https://www.thelocal.de/20160715/germany-at-frances-nice-terrorism-merkel-isis Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:36:39 +0200 germany-at-frances-nice-terrorism-merkel-isis A German jihadist was sentenced to prison Tuesday on war crimes charges after posing for pictures in conflict-torn Syria with the severed and impaled heads of two government troops. https://www.thelocal.de/20160712/jihadist-given-two-years-for-posing-with-severed-heads Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:18:50 +0200 jihadist-given-two-years-for-posing-with-severed-heads A German jihadist suspect went on trial Tuesday for war crimes in Syria after allegedly posing for photographs holding the severed heads of two victims of the conflict. https://www.thelocal.de/20160503/germanys-first-isis-war-crimes-trial-starts-in-frankfurt Tue, 03 May 2016 19:37:04 +0200 germanys-first-isis-war-crimes-trial-starts-in-frankfurt At least 29 German soldiers have travelled to Syria or Iraq in recent years, an internal military report has found, with some believed to have joined terror group Isis. https://www.thelocal.de/20160412/german-soldiers-may-have-joined-isis-in-syria Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:15:33 +0200 german-soldiers-may-have-joined-isis-in-syria German police have arrested a 19-year-old Syrian man accused of having fought with the Isis jihadist group in Syria, prosecutors said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160324/syrian-isis-fighter-arrested-in-berlin-prosecutors Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:26:45 +0100 syrian-isis-fighter-arrested-in-berlin-prosecutors A 22-year-old from western Germany has been arrested at Frankfurt Airport over allegations he joined Isis and appeared in propaganda videos for the group. https://www.thelocal.de/20160318/police-arrested-suspected-jihadist-at-frankfurt-airport Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:20:26 +0100 police-arrested-suspected-jihadist-at-frankfurt-airport A German court on Friday convicted an Islamic State "storm trooper" who helped track down deserters for the jihadist group in Syria, sentencing him to four-and-a-half years in prison. https://www.thelocal.de/20160304/isis-storm-trooper-jailed-for-four-years Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:30:33 +0100 isis-storm-trooper-jailed-for-four-years German investigators said Thursday they were examining whether a 15-year-old girl who stabbed a policeman in the neck was motivated by Islamic extremism. https://www.thelocal.de/20160304/teen-who-stabbed-cop-may-have-links-to-isis Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:18:38 +0100 teen-who-stabbed-cop-may-have-links-to-isis German police on Thursday arrested a doctor suspected of having recruited a man of limited mental capacity to fight for the Islamic State organisation in Iraq. https://www.thelocal.de/20160303/berlin-doctor-recruited-mentally-ill-man-for-suicide-bombing Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:56:48 +0100 berlin-doctor-recruited-mentally-ill-man-for-suicide-bombing Both far-right extremists and Islamist radicals are growing in numbers according to two separate media reports on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160125/radical-islam-and-neo-nazi-groups-on-the-rise Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:39:45 +0100 radical-islam-and-neo-nazi-groups-on-the-rise Police in the Rhineland have warned people not to dress up like a jihadist for upcoming Carnival street parties. https://www.thelocal.de/20160119/dont-dress-as-terrorists-for-carnival-police-warn Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:24:57 +0100 dont-dress-as-terrorists-for-carnival-police-warn Germany's chief prosecutor is investigating around 200 people who have travelled to Syria to fight in the civil war there, the Justice Minister confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20151209/german-authorities-investigating-200-syria-fighters Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:03:02 +0100 german-authorities-investigating-200-syria-fighters