The number of attacks with explosives has increased significantly so far this year, according to the latest official figures, with 93 attacks up until the end of May.
Uzbekistan said on Friday the
suspect in last week's deadly Stockholm truck attack had ties to Islamic State
jihadists and the West had been warned about him.
A strange paradox of covering breaking news live is that you barely have time to stop and think about it. So what happened in Stockholm on Friday, April 7th really only sank in for me the day after, on Saturday.
A truck slammed into a crowd of people outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on Friday, causing "deaths" in what the prime minister described as an "terror attack."
A 34-year-old man who pushed another man in front of a train at Stockholm’s central metro station has been sentenced to psychiatric care for attempted murder.
Muhammed, a 32-year-old engineer from Syria, was beaten up by a Swedish bus driver on Tuesday. He tells The Local Voices why the incident left him humiliated, and why he felt unable to defend himself.
A 34-year-old man is facing trial in a case which grabbed global headlines this summer after he allegedly pushed another man in front of a train at Stockholm's central underground station.
Sweden's prime minister has condemned the attack in Nice, while one tourist tells The Local of his horror at seeing the truck plough through the crowds.
Most people like to think they would step up and defend someone in trouble. But how many have the courage to do so? A video asking that question has gone viral in Sweden.
Around 100 people spent Friday morning gathered outside a Swedish court where a group of men planning a violent attack at refugee housing were appearing.
UPDATED: Police say they're hoping a leaked photo of a man suspected of planning terror crimes in Sweden will lead to fresh tips about his potential whereabouts.
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has said his country is stepping up security measures after being "naive" about the possibility of a terror attack.
Swedes are on high alert for a terror attack for the first time in history. While the move has barely grabbed global media attention, it's a big deal in what is one of the safest countries on the planet, argues The Local's Editor Maddy Savage.
UPDATED: Sweden's terror threat level was raised to 'high' for the first time in history, as the head of security service Säpo revealed at a press conference that police were hunting a suspected terrorist.
UPDATE: Hundreds gathered in Trollhättan on Sunday to observe a moment of silence at 2 pm to remember the victims of last week’s school attack there that took the lives of a student, a teaching assistant and the attacker himself.
A 25-year-old Palestinian who stabbed a police officer at an asylum centre in Denmark this week is the same man who attacked a Swedish minister earlier in the year, Danish officials have said.
The asylum centre in Arboga, where two men linked to the Ikea murders lived, was evacuated early on Saturday morning when two bags of flammable liquid were found nearby. The same night a centre for unaccompanied refugee children and young people in Värnamo was the target of an arson attack.
Outsourcing and serious security flaws by external suppliers could leave Sweden's telecommunications network open to attack – and make it easier for foreign powers to tap into them unnoticed, an IT security expert has said.
Despite Wednesday's deadly attack on a Paris magazine that published controversial pictures of the prophet Mohammed, Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks argues that European media should not censor satirical pictures in the future.
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefen Löfven has condemned the killing of twelve people at a French satirical magazine in Paris on Wednesday, describing it as "disgusting".
