One of Germany's best known Islamist preachers went on trial in the western city of Düsseldorf on Tuesday on charges of backing "a terrorist group" fighting in Syria.
German citizens with dual nationality who fight for a terror group should be stripped of their German citizenship, the interior minister said Thursday, unveiling tough new measures after two attacks by Islamic State militants.
The head of the Green Party has responded angrily to Angela Merkel’s speech on refugees on Friday, saying he feels “ashamed at Germany’s failure".
A German jihadist was sentenced to prison Tuesday on war crimes charges after posing for pictures in conflict-torn Syria with the severed and impaled heads of two government troops.
A refugee from Syria found a huge stash of money in a secondhand wardrobe he bought. But keeping it for himself would have been a betrayal of his religion, he said.
Germany expects up to 100,000 undocumented migrants to leave the country in 2016, a number Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere Wednesday hailed as high but insufficient after last year's record influx.
The Dalai Lama said in an interview published Thursday that Europe has accepted "too many" refugees, and that they should eventually return to help rebuild their home countries.
Germany recorded a steep decline in asylum seeker arrivals in April, official data showed Monday, after the closure of the popular route used by migrants through the Balkans.
A German jihadist suspect went on trial Tuesday for war crimes in Syria after allegedly posing for photographs holding the severed heads of two victims of the conflict.
On Tuesday Germany will start its first war crimes trial over atrocities in Syria, as a mass refugee influx brings not only witnesses and victims but also suspects into the country.
Seated on a wooden bench in a big sports hall in the southern German town of Puchheim, Adama was combing her hair carefully as she waited for her mobile phone to recharge.
At least 29 German soldiers have travelled to Syria or Iraq in recent years, an internal military report has found, with some believed to have joined terror group Isis.
Many Syrians already living in Germany are in favour of an upper limit on the number of refugees allowed into the country, a new survey of their attitudes has showed.
German authorities on Wednesday arrested a Syrian national on war crimes charges, on suspicion of commanding a rebel militia in Aleppo that committed atrocities and plundered artefacts for sale.
The flimsy vessel, crammed with some 20 people, had just reached open water off the Turkish coast when the engine died. A dreadful silence followed. Yusra Mardini saw terror in the eyes of her fellow passengers as the inflatable dinghy began taking on water. Most of the others could not swim, but 17-year-old Yusra could.
Last year only around around 600,000 refugees stayed in Germany, around half the number that the media have previously reported, new government figures show.
March 15th marks five years since protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ultimately erupted into a civil war, sending millions of refugees abroad, many ending up in Germany. The Local looks at ways that the ongoing conflict has impacted Germany.
The founder of Germany's xenophobic and anti-Islam group Pegida has been summoned to court on hate speech charges for describing refugees as "cattle" and "scum", a court in Dresden said Monday.
Germany's Angela Merkel has protested the closure of the Balkans refugee route -- but critics accuse her government of hypocrisy, as Berlin also tries to reduce the influx.
A German court on Friday convicted an Islamic State "storm trooper" who helped track down deserters for the jihadist group in Syria, sentencing him to four-and-a-half years in prison.
