Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wahbeh family, who immigrated to Germany from Syria, sits along a river in Berlin on Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ...

Refugees wave a German flag and chant "Mama Merkel" at the Greek-Macedonian border in Idomeni, Greece, on March 7, 2016. At the end of August 2015, then-German chancellor Angela Merkel opened the ...

In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapse, Germany has been gripped by heated political debates over whether Syrian refugees should be encouraged to return voluntarily or face forced ...

Germany reintroduced border controls on Sunday after admitting it could no longer cope with a record influx of migrants, tightening the screws ahead of a key EU meeting on spreading the burden of the ...

The German government said on Sunday that it is taking emergency measures to tighten its borders as a huge influx of refugees continues to enter the country. Germany had taken the lead in welcoming ...

Crouched on a curb in a parking lot, smoking furiously, Majedeldin Abdulhai was gathering strength for the next leg of a journey that had already almost killed him. It was August 2015, and for weeks ...

Berlin — Nearly a decade after fleeing Syria's civil war, Rahaf Alshaar sat on her couch in a leafy suburb of Berlin sipping Arabic coffee spiced with cardamom. When she, her husband and their three ...

This article first appeared on our partner site, Independent Arabia In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapse, Germany has been gripped by heated political debates over whether Syrian ...