Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swedish gangsters are recruiting teenage girls to kill and maim rival criminals with firebombs, a Telegraph investigation has ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ministers in Sweden's government are considering imposing age limits on social media platforms if tech companies find themselves unable to prevent gangs from recruiting young ...

The decline in violence has come as an immense relief to Sweden’s centre-Right government, led by Ulf Kristersson, the prime ...

Sweden is racing to implement tougher legislation after a wave of bombings linked to gang violence. Prime Minister Ulf ...

In the gang war that is shaking Sweden, young people are being recruited as hitmen via encrypted messaging, a method used by criminal organisations to evade the police. Sweden has struggled to rein in ...

Children in Orebro, Sweden, where police say some children are in the grip of gangs - Copyright AFP/File Sergei SUPINSKY Children in Orebro, Sweden, where police say ...

Uppsala is home base for Sweden's two most notorious gang leaders, Ismael Abdo and Rawa Majid, who are both believed to be orchestrating operations from abroad.

(CNN) — Every Saturday night throughout the year, Robert Wirehag – a pastor and former youth soccer player for Swedish club IK Sirius – arranges “night football” in Gottsunda, a suburb of Uppsala, ...

Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer receives the conclusions of a government inquiry on criminalising gang membership from the inquiry chair Hans Harding. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT A Swedish government ...