Joakim Medin, the Swedish freelance journalist who was put into solitary confinement by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is back in Sweden after being released over the weekend.
A Swedish freelance journalist reporting on the civil war in Syria has been released after being held nearly a week by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. During his time in detention, Joakim Medin says he was kept in an isolation cell “covered in dirt and blood”.
Police in Sweden are helping authorities in Norway who are investigating a young Norwegian woman who is understood to have been trained by an extremist group in Syria and could be plotting a terror attack.
UPDATED: Global security threats dominated Margot Wallström’s first foreign policy declaration in parliament on Wednesday, as the foreign minister came under fire for Sweden's sales of arms to Saudi Arabia.
Organized crime stemming from the conflict in Syria, could pose the greatest threat to Sweden since the Second World War, argues political analyst Karl Lallerstedt in a debate article exclusively written for The Local.
UPDATED: A 28-year-old Syrian living in Sweden is facing war-crime charges over a vicious assault, after a video of the attack was posted on Facebook. It is the first case of its kind in Sweden.
Sweden's Security Service, Säpo, has confirmed data suggesting that at least one hundred Swedes have fought alongside Islamist extremists in Iraq and Syria.
Sweden and Germany have been recognized for taking in more Syrian asylum seekers between them than the rest of the EU. But human rights group Amnesty International has accused its European neighbours of a "shocking" lack of support for people forced to flee their homes.
Sweden's former Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has got a new post on the board of Crisis Group, a not-for-profit international organization that works to prevent violent conflict.
Two sisters from Södertälje near Stockholm are celebrating getting more than 1.3 million hits on YouTube, with a video calling for peace in war-torn Syria.
The number of young Europeans fighting for the Isis has increased dramatically in the past month with fears that Swedes, Norwegians and Danes are among them.
With Sweden attending the Syrian peace negotiations, the government reiterated this week that other EU countries had to pick up pace in helping asylum seekers from the civil war.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt dissected "digital diplomacy" on Thursday at his TedX debut, speaking with The Local about the world's first social media civil war, whether Twitter can heal Syria, and when the White House couldn't "operate" emails.
Beatings with rifle butts and mock executions were among the harrowing abuse suffered by two Swedish journalists during nearly seven weeks in captivity in Syria, the pair revealed ahead of their expected arrival in Sweden on Thursday.
An al-Qaeda affiliated group may be behind the kidnapping of five people in Syria, including a Swedish citizen, who were working in the region with Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
The number of people seeking asylum in Sweden increased by 24 percent in 2013 to 54,259, with the highest number of migrants seeking refuge coming from Syria.
Sweden's security police said they fear that terrorism could be imported by some 75 people who have left Sweden for Syria over the last two years to train or fight with al Qaeda-inspired groups.
As Syrians fleeing civil war stream into Sweden by the thousands, the country faces both practical and political challenges in dealing with the influx, AFP's Tom Sullivan discovers.
Two Swedish journalists who went missing on their way out of Syria at the weekend may have been arrested for not having proper visas, according to another journalist currently in the country.
