Syrian physicians in Germany ranked first among foreign doctors, as their number reached 6,120 doctors, most of whom came to the country with the start of the refugee wave in 2015. This number does not include doctors with German citizenship. German media said that more than 60,000 foreign...

(THE CONVERSATION) In October 2022, Lebanon and Israel signed a maritime border agreement brokered by the U.S., a move interpreted as the beginning of normalizing relations between two countries technically at war. The next step would have been the settlement of the long-running land border...

Syria is poised to come in from the cold at the UN’s nuclear watchdog, with the agency’s boss travelling to Damascus this month. Rafael Grossi revealed he was invited by Syria’s government in order to “re-establish a meaningful, constructive dialogue”. His talks on “remaining...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of asylum seekers in Europe reached a seven-year high last year, with more than 1.1 million people applying for international protection in 2023, most of them Syrian nationals, the European Union said Wednesday. The increase in asylum seekers and other migrants...