Berlin Raids

Hundreds of police Thursday raided properties across Germany over suspected links to the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah group, authorities said, as Berlin moves to stem a rash of anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.

German authorities raided dozens of locations nationwide on Wednesday after interior minister Nancy Faeser banned a right-wing extremist group accused of spreading Nazi ideology.

German investigators searched a refugee centre and a flat in Berlin on Tuesday which they believe were homes to associates of the Tunisian man who killed 12 people in an attack in the capital before Christmas, the federal prosecutor's office said.

German police commandos raided two apartments in Berlin's neighbourhood of Kreuzberg on Wednesday but did not find a Tunisian man suspected of involvement in a deadly truck attack, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing investigators.

German police conducted raids in Berlin and other parts of northern Germany on Thursday in a search for four men suspected of links to ISIS militants and possibly preparing an attack in Germany, police said.

German police said today they had released two men detained on suspicion of planning a "serious act of violence" following raids in Berlin that targeted Islamists.

Berlin police said they carried out two raids targeting Islamists Thursday and arrested two men suspected of preparing to carry out "a serious act of violence representing a danger for the state."

Berlin police say they have taken two men into custody on suspicion they were recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the so-called Islamic State terrorism group in Syria.

German police say robbers dug a 30-meter (100-foot) tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as they left to cover their tracks.

Hundreds of police Thursday raided properties across Germany over suspected links to the Iran-backed Shiite Hezbollah group, authorities said, as Berlin moves to stem a rash of anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.

German authorities raided dozens of locations nationwide on Wednesday after interior minister Nancy Faeser banned a right-wing extremist group accused of spreading Nazi ideology.

German investigators searched a refugee centre and a flat in Berlin on Tuesday which they believe were homes to associates of the Tunisian man who killed 12 people in an attack in the capital before Christmas, the federal prosecutor's office said.

German police commandos raided two apartments in Berlin's neighbourhood of Kreuzberg on Wednesday but did not find a Tunisian man suspected of involvement in a deadly truck attack, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing investigators.

German police conducted raids in Berlin and other parts of northern Germany on Thursday in a search for four men suspected of links to ISIS militants and possibly preparing an attack in Germany, police said.

German police said today they had released two men detained on suspicion of planning a "serious act of violence" following raids in Berlin that targeted Islamists.

Berlin police said they carried out two raids targeting Islamists Thursday and arrested two men suspected of preparing to carry out "a serious act of violence representing a danger for the state."

Berlin police say they have taken two men into custody on suspicion they were recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the so-called Islamic State terrorism group in Syria.

German police say robbers dug a 30-meter (100-foot) tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as they left to cover their tracks.