Germany said Friday it would allow deportation
of Syrians to their war-ravaged homeland from 2021 if they are deemed a security risk, five years after a massive refugee influx.
A Syrian doctor living in Germany is being investigated on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity at a military hospital in the war-torn country.
Germany charged two alleged former Syrian secret service officers with participating in crimes against humanity, in what rights activists said Tuesday would be the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel threw her support Tuesday behind a controversial call by her defence minister for international troops to create a "safe zone" in northeastern Syria.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government was sharply divided Tuesday by defence minister Annegret
Kramp-Karrenbauer's surprise call for international troops to secure northeast Syria.
The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Monday handed over four children linked with the Islamic State group to Germany, their first such repatriation to the European country, an official said.
Germany has stopped processing some applications for asylum by Syrian refugees, pending a new assessment of the security situation in the war-torn country, according to a report on Saturday.
After eight years of brutal war in Syria, the UNESCO World Heritage-listed city of Aleppo lies in ruins -- but a vast digital archive in Germany aims to keep its memory alive and help rebuild it one day.
Germany plans to strip dual nationals who
fight for a foreign militant group of their German citizenship, the government
said Monday, as Western nations eye the return of IS jihadists warily.
The German foreign minister said it would be
"extremely difficult" to organise the repatriation of European nationals in
Syria who had joined the Islamic State group, in response to a call by US
President Donald Trump.
Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria and says it's time to go home.
US-backed Kurdish-led forces have detained German jihadist Martin Lemke after he fled the last pocket held by
the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, two of his wives said Thursday.
A German appeals court Wednesday lengthened
the jail term for a Syrian refugee found guilty of war crimes and taking part
in the kidnapping of a Canadian UN peacekeeper.
Germany warned Thursday that US President Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria could endanger a battle against Islamic State militants and jeopardize achievements on the front.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has ruled out the notion that Germany could start deporting criminal refugees to Syria. The idea had been proposed within the conservative CDU party.
The leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany on Saturday called for a ceasefire around the last major rebel-held bastion of Idlib in Syria to be preserved.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Istanbul on Saturday ahead of a summit aimed at finding a political solution to Syria's devastating civil war, provide access to humanitarian aid and salvage a
fragile ceasefire in the country's last major rebel-held bastion.
From northern Syria, Muslim convert Sufyan is imploring his native Germany to take him back, having been captured years after joining the Islamic State group's so-called "caliphate".
Germany is ready to contribute to rebuilding Syria if a political solution was found for fair elections in the country, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday, as Moscow and Europe make rare joint efforts to save the Iran nuclear
deal.
