Germany Terror Suspect

Hundreds of police Thursday raided properties across Germany over suspected links to the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah group, authorities said, as Berlin moves to stem a rash of anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Two Iranian brothers were arrested in western Germany accused of planning an "Islamist attack" using lethal toxins, prosecutors said Sunday.

A Tunisian detained in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist-motivated attack produced ricin and tested the lethal toxin on a hamster, prosecutors said on Friday.

German police on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian suspected terrorist already in custody over a foiled biological attack with the deadly poison ricin, prosecutors said.

A massive black truck plowed into a Christmas market teeming with revelers in west Berlin on Monday, killing 12 people, wounding dozens more and leaving Germans mourning a national tragedy during the holiday season.

German investigators found several hundred grams of "highly volatile" explosives in an apartment they raided today in the eastern city of Chemnitz as they sought a Syrian man suspected of planning a bombing attack. The suspect remained on the run but three contacts were detained and being questioned, police said.

A gunman carried out a shooting rampage Friday in a busy shopping area of Munich, killing at least nine people and wounding several others in an act of "suspected terrorism" before he committed suicide, police said early Saturday.

At least 10 people are believed to have been killed in a shooting rampage in a Munich shopping centre on Friday that police described as a suspected terror attack. Police say the shooter was 'probably' alone and committed suicide.

A third teenager, who was arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurdwara by Islamist terrorists in the German city of Essen, has admitted to the authorities that he was part of a group which carried out the terror attack, according to a media report.

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurudwara by Islamist militants in the German city of Essen, police said today amid reports that two teenagers had rehearsed for the terror attack by detonating a prototype of their self-made bomb.

Two men suspected of links with the ISIS group and of planning an attack were on Thursday held for questioning in Germany, the public prosecutor said, although no evidence of any "concrete threat" had been found.

Wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was in Austria in September, telling police after arriving from Germany with two men that he was "on holiday", Austrian authorities said today.

Berlin police say they have taken two men into custody on suspicion they were recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the so-called Islamic State terrorism group in Syria.

Hundreds of police Thursday raided properties across Germany over suspected links to the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah group, authorities said, as Berlin moves to stem a rash of anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Two Iranian brothers were arrested in western Germany accused of planning an "Islamist attack" using lethal toxins, prosecutors said Sunday.

A Tunisian detained in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist-motivated attack produced ricin and tested the lethal toxin on a hamster, prosecutors said on Friday.

German police on Tuesday arrested the wife of a Tunisian suspected terrorist already in custody over a foiled biological attack with the deadly poison ricin, prosecutors said.

A massive black truck plowed into a Christmas market teeming with revelers in west Berlin on Monday, killing 12 people, wounding dozens more and leaving Germans mourning a national tragedy during the holiday season.

German investigators found several hundred grams of "highly volatile" explosives in an apartment they raided today in the eastern city of Chemnitz as they sought a Syrian man suspected of planning a bombing attack. The suspect remained on the run but three contacts were detained and being questioned, police said.

A gunman carried out a shooting rampage Friday in a busy shopping area of Munich, killing at least nine people and wounding several others in an act of "suspected terrorism" before he committed suicide, police said early Saturday.

At least 10 people are believed to have been killed in a shooting rampage in a Munich shopping centre on Friday that police described as a suspected terror attack. Police say the shooter was 'probably' alone and committed suicide.

A third teenager, who was arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurdwara by Islamist terrorists in the German city of Essen, has admitted to the authorities that he was part of a group which carried out the terror attack, according to a media report.

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurudwara by Islamist militants in the German city of Essen, police said today amid reports that two teenagers had rehearsed for the terror attack by detonating a prototype of their self-made bomb.

Two men suspected of links with the ISIS group and of planning an attack were on Thursday held for questioning in Germany, the public prosecutor said, although no evidence of any "concrete threat" had been found.

Wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was in Austria in September, telling police after arriving from Germany with two men that he was "on holiday", Austrian authorities said today.

Berlin police say they have taken two men into custody on suspicion they were recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the so-called Islamic State terrorism group in Syria.