Greek police detained nine Syrian refugees pretending to be a volleyball team as they attempted to board a flight for Vienna, Austria, with fake travel documents. The refugees were wearing matching sports clothing and backpacks, but were stopped late on Sunday when police became...

A Syrian man who came to Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2015 and was running for a seat in parliament in his new country's September election said Tuesday that he is withdrawing his candidacy. Tareq Alaows, who joined the Green party last year and was running as its candidate in a...

German authorities deported two Syrian refugees last Wednesday after a police raid on the Wolfhager-Pomerania district at dawn and took the two siblings, Marfan and Katia Khadr, and put them on a plane bound for Bulgaria, activists said. Katia, 18, told HNA channel that her mother had a...

The number of foreigners living in Germany increased by 1.8% last year, the lowest rate in a decade, according to official figures released Monday. The Federal Statistical Office said the foreign-born population rose by about 204,000 to 11.4 million, in a year when Germany and other...