, the Interior Ministry announced on Friday. The ministry decided not to renew a ban on deportations to Syria that has been in place since 2012, when the United Nations formally declared Syria had entered a civil war. The prohibition sought to protect failed asylum seekers from being...

EU leaders plan to discuss arm exports to Turkey with NATO allies and Washington, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday, after Greece pushed for an arms embargo on Ankara. Merkel spoke after a summit where the bloc’s 27 leaders agreed to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish...

Russia’s military will set up positions around the northeast Syrian town of Ain Issa as part of an agreement with the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to reduce attacks from Turkish-controlled areas nearby. Riyadh al-Khalaf, the military council leader for Tal...

The Interior Ministry has announced that Syrians convicted of serious crimes can be deported for the first time since 2012. The change, from January, won't affect the vast majority of refugees who have made Germany home. Germany will not renew the ban on deportations to war-ravaged...