One of postwar Germany’s most publicized terrorism trials concluded Friday as a former German soldier was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a far-right attack on senior ...

A German far-right soldier's double life The trial of Franco A. a far-right extremist Bundeswehr soldier accused of plotting a terrorist attack while posing as a Syrian refugee ends on Friday.

FRANKFURT - A German court on Friday sentenced a former soldier to five and a half years in prison for plotting a far-right attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee.

The soldier, the son of a German mother and an estranged Italian immigrant father, posed as a Christian fruit seller from Damascus called David Benjamin. Albrecht, who repeatedly expressed anti ...