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Sweden has experienced an upward trend of deadly gang violence over the past several years, increasingly perpetrated with automatic weapons or explosives. In 2020, Sweden had a 10% increase in shooting incidents from the...

Residents of most industrialized western countries are used to freedom of speech at some level, usually restricted only when it has the potential to harm others. But some locations – including some of the more popular co...

On the morning of January 7, one person was killed and another injured when a hand grenade exploded in a square outside of the Vårby Gård metro station, located in the Huddinge municipality of southwest Stockholm. The de...

A series of nighttime car fires that began this summer have continued in the neighboring cities of Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. Their sudden frequency has led to widespread media coverage and concern from some...

On April 26, media outlets reported on a possible terrorist threat allegedly linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Stockholm. The information did not specify the target, timing, or method of a poss...

In less than a month, there have been two series of elaborate robberies in Stockholm targeting financial institutions, including banks and currency exchange businesses. On both September 25 and October 14, a group of mas...

Please find the latest edition of the OSAC Regional Analysis Bulletin (RAB). This week’s bulletin contains articles highlighting the recent discovery of a bomb workshop in Bahrain, a potential hijacking attempt against a...

Police in Gothenburg, Sweden, are warning of a new theft tactic that was on the rise in June. Between 30 and 40 street people, mostly women, work in pairs to target restaurant patrons who have left cell phones accessible...

Please find the latest edition of the OSAC Regional Analysis Bulletin (RAB). This week’s bulletin contains articles highlighting a spate of execution-style shootings in Malmo, Sweden, the one year anniversary of Egypt’s...

A spate of execution-style shootings across Malmo, Sweden, has residents on edge. Five people have been shot dead in about two months.

On December 11, 2010, a white Audi, containing gas cylinders and parked in the busy Drottninggatan shopping district in Stockholm, burst into flames after a small explosion. The blast caused minor injuries to two innocen...

A Swedish regional newspaper’s August 19 publication of a drawing by Swedish artist Lars Vilks showing the prophet Mohammed as a dog has stirred controversy in Sweden and led to diplomatic rebukes by several countries.

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has recently published a wealth of crime statistics for Sweden.

Starting November 6, the European Union has instituted new guidelines for carry-on luggage aboard all EU flights.

On March 21, Swedish officials discovered H5, the aggressive form of avian influenza, in two living swans in central Stockholm.

With a reputation as one of the safest areas in the world, it is surprising that is 2005 Sweden experienced more than 40 gangster-style armored car robberies.