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A police van waits outside the Iranian Embassy, flying the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran, central London, January 12, 2026. (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
June 3, 2026, 4:10 pm
Norwegian teen who planned UK murder was recruited by Iran-linked Swedish crime group
Prosecutors tell court that Johannes Natland was recruited by an organization called the Foxtrot Network, target of plot is unknown
By Reuters and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, December 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Alex Brandon)
January 21, 2026, 2:35 pm
Netanyahu accepts invite to Trump’s Board of Peace; Europe formulating common position
Egypt announces participation; Witkoff says Putin expected to join; Sweden and Norway reject invitations; Italy said to believe joining the board would violate its constitution
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustration: Protestors stand under hanging figures depicting the US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran as Iranians mark the 46th anniversary of the start of the Iran hostage crisis, on November 4, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
December 16, 2025, 10:17 pm
Iran says dual national held on spy charges since June war with Israel is Swedish
Tehran has given few details on espionage trial; others accused of working with Mossad have been executed; Swede is accused of meeting Israeli agents in 6 European countries
By AFP and ToI Staff
Salwan Momika protests outside a mosque in Stockholm on June 28, 2023, during the Eid al-Adha holiday. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
October 16, 2025, 11:54 am
Sweden identifies Syrian suspected of murdering Quran-burning activist
PM said in January there was ‘obviously a risk’ that the killing of Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika was linked to foreign powers
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson delivers a speech at the party's election watch in Nacka, near Stockholm late Sunday evening on September 11, 2022. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)
June 27, 2025, 12:41 am
Sweden Democrats apologize for past Nazi links, antisemitism as election nears
The party, which established ties with Israel’s government earlier this year, hopes to join a future coalition government after the 2026 vote
By Reuters and ToI Staff
This court sketch made on November 4, 2021, shows Osama Krayem on trial for the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks, during the trial taking place in a temporary courtroom set up at the Palais de Justice of Paris. (Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP)
June 4, 2025, 2:01 pm
Sweden tries sole surviving ISIS jihadist over Jordan pilot burned to death in Syria
Osama Krayem, 32 — already in prison over the 2015 Paris and 2016 Brussels attacks — acknowledges being present at the killing of Moaz al-Kasasbeh, but denies prosecution’s account
By Nioucha ZAKAVATI
Henrik Olin, Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the National Unit for Security Cases, and Reena Devgun, Senior Prosecutor at the National Unit against International and Organized Crime, announcing indictment of Swedish man Osama Krayem, for gross war crimes and terrorism in Syria, on 27 May 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. (TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer/via REUTERS)
May 28, 2025, 12:33 pm
Sweden charges jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria
Osama Krayem, already jailed for Paris and Brussels attacks, accused of taking part in Islamic State’s gruesome 2015 murder of Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage
By AFP
Illustrative: Police officers stand near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
April 28, 2025, 5:39 pm
Sweden sentences four teens over shooting attack on Israeli defense company
No one injured in attack on Elbit Systems’ offices in Gothenburg last October, months after bomb plot foiled by police
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A prohibition sign with a swastika is seen on the bonnet of a car during a demonstration near the fairground in Dresden, Germany on April 10, 2021. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)
April 20, 2025, 7:52 pm
Banners with swastikas hung over Swedish highway
Local police remove display, which coincides with Hitler’s birthday; no suspects arrested
By ToI Staff
Police are shown in front of the US embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, December 9, 2017. (Atila Altuntas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
April 9, 2025, 8:58 am
Iran directed teens who attacked Israel’s embassy in Stockholm last May, police says
Tehran’s embassy slams Swedish Security Service accusation as ‘fake and propagandistic,’ as US treasury sanctions local gang allegedly contracted by Iran to stage another attack
By JTA and ToI Staff
Handout picture released by Colombian Air Force showing Kfir combat airplane from the Colombian Air Force and a F15 jet (L) of the US Air Force during a military exercise in Puerto Salgar, Colombia, on September 8, 2023. (Handout / Colombian Air Force / AFP)
April 4, 2025, 7:51 pm
Colombia, which cut ties with Israel, to replace aging Israeli fighter jets with Swedish
Bogota says maintaining Kfir aircraft too complicated after severing relations with Jerusalem last year, though previous governments had also planned to replace them
By AP and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Jewish and pro-Israel leaders in Brussels, February 25, 2025. (Shalev Man/Foreign Ministry)
February 28, 2025, 12:14 pm
Israel decides to establish formal ties with trio of European far-right parties 
FM Sa’ar says opening of dialogue with Sweden Democrats, France’s National Rally, Spain’s Vox is based on their present actions, not antisemitic roots: ‘I didn’t see reason not to’
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
Illustrative: Police officers stand near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
February 11, 2025, 2:43 pm
Swedish police detain one on suspicion of plotting terror attack
Cops say arrest in Stockholm area unrelated to any previously ongoing cases; detainee suspected of being a member of terror group in case linked to Islamist extremism
By Reuters
Police special forces are seen leaving the scene of the Risbergska School in Orebro, Sweden, on February 4, 2025, following a deadly shooting (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
February 4, 2025, 8:37 pm
Some 10 people killed in attack at Swedish school for adults, gunman believed dead
Police investigating motive for attack, say they do not currently suspect terrorism; PM: ‘A very painful day for the whole of Sweden’
By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson
Salwan Najem (Youtube screenshot)
February 3, 2025, 7:03 pm
Swedish court convicts Quran burner of hate crimes, days after his ally was killed
Salwan Najem ‘expressed contempt for the Muslim ethnic group,’ court says, adding he and partner Salwan Momika — shot Thursday — exceeded free speech protections ‘by a wide margin’
By Reuters
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