Three youths aged 15 to 20 were killed in broad daylight at a hair salon in central Uppsala, about 45 miles north of Stockholm.

These are not one-off instances in Sweden. The land of the mild-mannered is witnessing frequent gang wars in its cities of ...

He is far from alone. For Sweden, known as a tolerant, law-abiding, humanitarian superpower, is now in the grip of ultra-violent gang wars. Twenty years ago, crimes involving firearms were almost ...

Mr. Rodríguez is a photojournalist who has reported extensively on incarceration, gangs, the police and re-entry. We used to believe in Sweden that the rights and well-being of children should ...

Swedish police have arrested a teenager after a fatal triple shooting in the city of Uppsala on Tuesday. The shooter ...

Sweden must drive down immigration and improve integration to tackle its drug gangs problem, the minister responsible for cutting asylum seeker numbers to the lowest since 1997 has said.

“Gang crime is a network problem. It exists everywhere throughout Sweden,” Hanna Paradis, former head of the National special operation “Frigg” - a police initiative created in 2023 to ...

STOCKHOLM, Dec 9 (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 ...