Tag: Islamist attack

Deadliest jihadist attacks in Europe since 2004

On March 11, Spain marks 20 years since Europe’s worst Islamist attack when militants claiming to be acting on behalf of Al-Qaeda bombed commuter trains in Madrid, killing 192 people and wounding nearly 2,000 others. The perpetrators said the attack was revenge for Spain’s role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. A decade later, jihadists invoked the West’s intervention against the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria to unleash a new wave of […]

German police kill Afghan teen after train axe attack

BERLIN , Germany (AFP) — German police shot dead a 17-year-old Afghan refugee late Monday after he attacked train passengers with an axe and a knife, seriously wounding three people in what one official said was a “probable” Islamist attack. Several other people were also injured in the assault on a regional train near the southern city of Wuerzburg, police said, adding that the teenager was killed as he tried to flee. Joachim Herrmann, the […]