Terrorist groups - foreign based:
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL):
aim(s): destabilize Germany’s economy and government
area(s) of operation: police aggressively pursue and break up sleeper cells; as of early 2017, approximately 750 to 850 German citizens were fighting in Syria or Iraq alongside ISIL, planning to go to fight, or had returned from the fight; in December 2015, two operatives were arrested while assembling an IED intended for bombing the Israeli Embassy in Berlin