The Isis (Islamic State) jihadist group has been operating a cell from the city of Winterthur, northeast of Zurich, according to a Swiss war correspondent and expert on Syria.
Islamic State jihadists may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, a Geneva-based UN agency said on Thursday in a report laying out a litany of atrocities.
A Swiss man of Syrian Christian origin who battled the Islamic State group faces charges after returning home, raising the issue of how Europe handles citizens fighting Isis.
The first jihadist returning to Switzerland from Syria will escape prison but has to perform 600 hours of community service, RTS, the French-language national broadcaster reported on Wednesday.
UPDATED: A Swiss man kidnapped by Islamic militants in the Philippines nearly three years ago escaped on Saturday after a fierce struggle with one of his captors over a machete and a frantic run to freedom under gunfire, the military said.
A website considered by terrorism experts to be one of the major francophone platforms for recruiting jihadists was recently closed by Swiss authorities, French-language national TV broadcaster RTS reports.
Swiss authorities confirmed on Friday that three Iraqis arrested in March are suspected of having planned a terrorist attack in Europe on behalf of the Islamic State group.
Three Iraqis arrested in Switzerland in March are suspected of having planned an attack in the name of the Isis group, Swiss media reported on Wednesday.
The Islamist militant onslaught in Iraq raises the spectre of a sectarian conflict spilling across the embattled nation's borders, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in Geneva on Tuesday.
Iran and world powers locked horns in intense nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday, with Tehran saying a deal was not yet in sight in the third round of negotiations since Hassan Rouhani's election.
French President François Hollande has spelled out his key demands to Iran ahead of crunch nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers this week in Geneva aimed at reaching a landmark accord.
Iraq says it has reached a $6-billion deal with a Swiss company for the construction and operation of an oil refinery with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day.
