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German police looking for 'Tunisian man', local media reports

Identity documents found in the driver's seat of the truck which ploughed into a Christmas market on Monday evening indicate an Anis A, according to Der Spiegel magazine.

Germany

German president visits Berlin attack casualties in hospital

Joachim Gauck spent time with victims due to undergo operations and described the lorry attack on a Christmas market as 'an assault on our way of life'.

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for deadly truck attack in Berlin

Germany

ISIL claims responsibility for Berlin Christmas market attack

ISIL says it carried out fatal lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market.

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Germany

Terror attacks this year in Germany

Bastille Day is a national holiday in France and a time to celebrate.

Germany

Europe pays tribute to those killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack

A sombre-looking Angela Merkel joined the Mayor of Berlin, and Germany’s foreign and interior ministers at the scene of the deadly truck attack on the Christmas market in the…

Germany

Suspect in Berlin lorry attack 'denies involvement' - German interior minister

The German authorities say it is not clear whether the man arrested after Monday's attack on a Christmas market is the perpetrator.

Germany

Berlin market attack: ISIL claims responsibility, prosecutors release main suspect, perpetrator potentially still at large

German police say "unclear" arrested Pakistani man drove Berlin Christmas market truck, warn armed terrorist suspect still at large, call for "vigilance".

Germany

This is a very difficult day, Chancellor Merkel addresses Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a moment of reckoning after the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.

Germany

Berlin lorry attack: one of the dead 'had been shot'

A regional interior minister has reportedly said a Polish national found dead in the lorry used in the Christmas market attack had been shot.

Germany

Berlin attack: what happened

Just after 8pm local time, when the Christmas market would have been packed with tourists and locals, a lorry ploughed into the crowd.

World

A deadly 2016 for terrorism attacks in Europe

2016 was marked by a series of terror attacks around Europe as ISIL sought to strike back at the nations fighting it in Syria and Iraq.

Jordan

Jordan police seize 'arms and explosives' after Karak terror attack

Jordanian authorities say they’ve seized weapons and explosives from a house used to plan terrorist attacks which led to ten people being killed on Sunday.

Germany

12 year-old boy 'attempts nail bombing' in Ludwigshafen Christmas market, City Hall

A 12 year old German-Iraqi boy in Ludwigshafen, Germany attempts a double nail-bomb attack

Egypt

ISIL claims responsibility for Cairo Cathedral attack

The Islamic militant group ISIL has said it was behind Sunday’s bomb attack (Dec 11) on Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral.

Syria

Paris attacks planners killed in airstrike - US

US airstrikes have killed three key ISIL leaders in Syria, according to the US defence secretary Ash Carter.

World News

11 arrested in France over Nice attack

11 people have been arrested in connection with the investigation into last summer's terrorist attack in the Riviera city of Nice.

United Kingdom

UK to consider banning far-right neo-Nazi group

The UK government will be called upon to make a landmark decision which would ban and label a British neo-Nazi group a terrorist organisation

Turkey

Istanbul stadium attack: Offshoot of Kurdish PKK claims responsibility

An offshoot of the Kurdish militant group the PKK has said it was behind Saturday’s twin bomb attack outside a football stadium in Istanbul.

Turkey

Dozens killed in explosions near Istanbul football stadium

Dozens of people have been killed and more than 160 wounded in two explosions near a football stadium in Istanbul, according to Turkey’s interior minister.