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 ...

More than 420,000 Syrian refugees came to Germany last year, and the majority will eventually receive asylum. But the country is so overwhelmed that it is taking months, ...

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 ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are going back to their homeland but conditions there remain extremely challenging ...

The flood of Syrian refugees into Germany has offered a tableau of misery, desperation and ultimately joy. Renee Montagne talks to Syrian refugee Ahmad Akkad about his journey from Turkey to Germany.

HANOVER, Germany, September 11 (UNHCR) - A first group of 107 highly vulnerable Syrian refugees arrived by plane in the northern German city of Hanover today from Lebanon under a special humanitarian ...

Germany’s interior minister, Nancy Faeser of the center-left Social Democratic Party, doesn’t share Mr. Spahn’s view. Herr Faeser told the newspaper Bild that “the end of Assad’s tyranny finally gives ...

Far-right call for Germany to deport Syrian refugees after fall of Assad regime. The far-right Alternative for Germany party maintains that asylum should only be a temporary solution – and wants ...

Germany is struggling to integrate an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers since 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel won praise from human rights groups by announcing that the nation would allow ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --A 26-year-old man, who is a refugee from Syria, has confessed to a mass knife attack at a street festival in Germany, police said Sunday. Late Saturday, German authorities said a ...

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.