Topic: Sweden
British police said Wednesday they had arrested the wife of a man who carried out a suicide bombing in Sweden in December on suspicion of carrying out preparatory acts for a terrorist attack.Scotland Yard confirmed they detained Mona Thwany, the wife of ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of a failed suicide bomber who police believe attempted to kill Christmas shoppers in Stockholm last December was arrested in Britain, British sources said on Wednesday.Taymour Abdulwahab, a Swedish national of Middle Eastern descent, was killed when ...
Four terror suspects arrested in Sweden at the weekend have ties to the Somali Islamist movement Shebab and were plotting an attack using bombs and firearms, a newspaper reported Monday.Neither Sweden's intelligence agency nor the police have confirmed the report, and have ...
Swedish police arrested four people suspected of planning a terror attack in the city of Gothenburg and evacuated hundreds of people from a building hosting an art fair, officials said Sunday."Four people were arrested yesterday (Saturday) in Gothenburg, suspected of preparing terrorist ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's National Security Service (SAPO) said on Sunday it had arrested four people on suspicion of planning a terror attack on Gothenburg, the country's second-largest city.Ulf Edberg, spokesman for the Vastra Gotaland police in west Sweden, said a culture ...
(Reuters) - A gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labor party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo.Here are details of recent bomb attacks and plots ...
Britain's universities are complacent in tackling Islamic extremism on campus, the interior minister warned Monday.Home Secretary Theresa May said universities were not taking the issue of radicalisation seriously enough, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper.Her remarks come a day ahead ...
British police said Tuesday they had arrested a 30-year-old foreign national in Scotland in connection with a December suicide bombing in Stockholm.The man was detained in a dawn raid in Glasgow on suspicion of "aiding terrorist activities" abroad, police said. Officers were ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish police said Tuesday they had arrested a foreign national under anti-terrorism powers in connection with the botched suicide bombing in Stockholm last December.Taymour Abdulwahab, a Swedish national of Middle Eastern descent, was killed in an attempted attack on ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq informed the United States about a plot to carry out bombings in Sweden two months before an attack in Stockholm by a man trained in Iraq, an Iraqi security official told al Arabiya television on Friday.Major General Dhai ...