Sweden, a country of mild-mannered people, is seeing a record rise in heinous crime. Five people were shot on Tuesday. Such ...

It was April 24 1975, and six armed German terrorists from the far-left militant group known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang had stormed the embassy, taking the ambassador and his staff hostage. Ten of the ...

Sweden wants to bring forward a new law that will allow authorities to secretly wiretap children under the age of 15 as the Nordic country grapples with a spate of bombings linked to criminal gangs.

Sweden can send criminals to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, a government-appointed commission said on Wednesday, as the country struggles to handle an influx of new inmates arising from a ...

A man aged in his mid-60s was shot dead in a store in Husby in Stockholm's northwest on Wednesday afternoon.Swedish Radio's ...

Sweden is grappling with a gang crime wave involving teenagers hired for everything from vandalism to bombings and murder.

The worst mass shooting in Swedish history was carried out by a 35-year-old unemployed recluse with a hunting licence who had ...

Swedish police confirm around 10 people were killed at a school for adults on the outskirts of Stockholm. The gunman is ...

In one criminal network in Sweden, children as young as 12 received orders from gang leaders to carry weapons instead of more ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden will fast-track new legislation to allow police to use electronic surveillance tools against minors after dozens of gang-related bombings in the capital Stockholm in ...

primarily in the Stockholm capital region. In January alone there have been 30 bombings, most of them acts of extortion by gangs against companies and citizens, police said. Sign up here.