Syrian refugees in Germany are glad they can visit home. But just visit . Jan. 1, 2025 at 11:01 am Updated Jan. 1, 2025 at 12:01 pm . By . Melissa Eddy. The New York Times.

Legally, refugees can lose their asylum protection status if they visit their home country which they left in fear of persecution. Since the fall of Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad last December ...

Germany has hosted a significant number of Syrian refugees since 2015-2016, when Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government made the decision to keep the country’s borders open to those fleeing the ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany party maintains that asylum should only be a temporary solution – and wants Syrians to return home, as Germany forced Bosnians to do in the 1990s ...

Some refugees may return to Syria because they want to live there again. But many won’t—for the same reasons many refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe didn’t after World War II.

A Syrian refugee who immigrated to Germany due to the war conditions in Syria works in a Syrian restaurant in Berlin, Tuesday, December 10, 2024. [AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi] ...

The toppling of Bashar al-Assad's regime was celebrated by millions of Syrian refugees across Europe but now they face the prospect of an uncertain return to their homeland. Hardly a day after ...

Syrian refugees celebrate the fall of the Assad regime, in Mainz, Germany, Dec. 8, 2024 (DPA photo by Andreas Arnold via AP Images). To critics, however, the phrase was perceived as dismissive of ...

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To be sure, people are on the move in and around Syria. Since the start of the rebel advance, about 125,000 refugees have returned, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. But 100,000 have ...

Upon learning that Syria’s dynastic dictatorship had fallen, Iman Mohammed, a Syrian refugee living in Germany, felt a surge of elation at the idea that she could return to her homeland.