They are still confused and, understandably, a little angry in the centre of Essen, though the mood is very much calmer than ...

The German bipartisan folly on Russia has been different, but also harmful. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder supported Putin wholeheartedly and approved of Putin’s favorite project, Nord Stream, a ...

A driver plowed a car into crowds of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday evening. Authorities took the driver into custody, according to German media. Magdeburg police shut ...

Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS) gave an interview on Wednesday with the Lebanese Al-Jadid channel that provoked a ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he had not spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump in over four years, but ...

The Assad-era militia leader was found guilty by a court in Hamburg for crimes including torture, deprivation of liberty and ...

Spahn said Germany should pause new asylum-seeker applications from Syria, as the current government intends ... in Syrian refugees has been a flashpoint since CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered her ...

A German court handed a 10-year jail term to a Syrian former militia leader on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed under former president Bashar al-Assad.

Prosecutors said he committed the crimes from 2012 to 2015 as a leader of the pro-Assad "shabiha" militia in Damascus, tasked ...

Syria's military said it had carried out a "temporary troop withdrawal" in Aleppo to prepare for a counteroffensive against "terrorists". And it admitted insurgents had entered large parts of the ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “murderous regime” in Syria this week was celebrated with Churchillian bombast by British Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs David Lammy ...

Polls suggest that a February election will result in a rightward shift, at a moment when Europe’s largest economy is ...