A 28-year-old Libyan man was arrested on Saturday near Berlin, suspected of planning a terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy in Germany. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the man is believed to have ties to the terrorist organization Daesh (ISIS).

Germany’s federal prosecutor arrested a suspected terrorist on Saturday evening to prevent a possible attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin.

A Libyan man being held by German police for allegedly plotting an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin was planning to use firearms in his assault, prosecutors said. The man with suspected ties to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) was detained in a raid by a heavily armed police unit on his flat in the Berlin suburb of Bernau on Saturday,

German authorities said Sunday that they have arrested a Libyan national with suspected ties to the extremist group Islamic State who was allegedly planning a firearms attack on the Israeli Embassy. Police and other security forces detained the man on Saturday evening in Bernau,

A suspected Islamic State supporter has been placed in remand custody for allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin. An investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in the south-western city of Karlsruhe has issued a formal arrest warrant for the man,

The suspect, a Libyan citizen who was only identified as "Omar A" in official statements and media, was accused by Germany of supporting the terrorist ideology of IS.