On the final day of Munich’s Oktoberfest, the city’s mayor said a series of terror warnings had contributed to a “noticeable” drop in revelers to the world’s largest beer festival.
German authorities said on Friday that they had arrested a Turkish-German man on suspicion of obtaining bomb-making materials and recruiting people for Islamist terror network al-Qaida.
The United States has warned its citizens to be alert when travelling to Germany, after the terror network al-Qaida threatened attacks timed to coincide the election on Sunday.
Al-Qaida warned Germans on Friday to change their government in the September 27 election, saying they will face a "bad awakening" if they do not, according to two intelligence monitoring services.
After a three-year legal battle, an Islamist under surveillance by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has been allowed to name his young son “Jihad,” daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Wednesday.
Former Red Army Faction terrorist Verena Becker was arrested on Friday for her suspected role in the leftist assassination of West Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback more than 30 years ago.
Police have arrested a 24-year-old suspected of helping the Sauerland terrorist cell currently on trial in Düsseldorf. He was reportedly on his way to an Islamist training camp.
Interior Ministry Wolfgang Schäuble on Thursday downplayed the threat of an imminent terrorist attack in Germany before the general election in September.
The German Police Union has warned of an increasingly violent extreme-left scene, which it claims is likely to start attacking politicians just as the now defunct Red Army Faction (RAF) did in the past.
With just over a month to go before Germany's general election, daily newspaper <i>Die Welt </i> reported on Friday that an unprecedented number of Islamist videos encouraging holy war against the country have flooded the internet.
New DNA evidence has implicated former Red Army Faction member Verena Becker in the leftist assassination of West Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback more than 30 years ago.
Three controversial secret CIA prisons built after September 11, 2001 to house alleged terrorists were planned from Frankfurt, The New York Times reported this week.
A 29-year-old German convert to Islam confessed in court on Monday to plotting devastating bombings against US soldiers and diplomats stationed in Germany.
Tourism experts are predicting that recent terrorist bombings on the Spanish island of Mallorca will not stop the traditional hordes of German tourists from embarking on their vacations there this summer, <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Monday.
The German government has told people planning to go to Mallorca on holiday this summer not to be scared off by the terrorist bombing which killed two policeman on Thursday.
Plans to share confidential banking data between the European Union and the US for anti-terrorism purposes have united disparate parts of the German political spectrum in opposition.
A German-Pakistani man believed to be a member of al Qaida was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday for financially supporting the Islamist terrorist network.
A Muslim woman is stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom and nobody seems to care. <b><a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de" target="_blank">Der Tagesspiegel</a></b>'s Andrea Dernbach comments on Germany’s problematic relationship to Islam.
After a warning from the US government, German security services are stepping up measures to counter a possible terror attack against Germany by the al-Qaeda terror organisation, according to a report published Saturday by the magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
Three months ahead of national elections, German security experts are meeting in Berlin to discuss the danger of terrorist attacks in the country, daily <i>Süddeutsche Zeitung</i> reported on Thursday.
Defence Minister Franz Joseph Jung has insisted that Germany is not fighting a war in Afghanistan, rejecting calls for such an admission after three soldiers died there on Tuesday.
Six foreign hostages, including five Germans, kidnapped this month in Yemen are alive and being held by Shiite rebels, a tribal source said on Monday. Three other hostages were found dead last week.
