Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

Another Christmas and the politics of Europe are once again roiled by one of the Continent’s newest traditions: the Christmas ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “murderous regime” in Syria this week was celebrated with Churchillian bombast by British Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs David Lammy ...

Polls suggest that a February election will result in a rightward shift, at a moment when Europe’s largest economy is ...

Germany freezes Syrian asylum applications post Assad regime fall, sparking debate on refugee integration and future of ...

Obeida Arnaout, the spokesman for the Sunni fundamentalist Levant Liberation Council (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham or HTS) gave an interview on Wednesday with the Lebanese Al-Jadid channel that provoked a ...

A German court handed a 10-year jail term to a Syrian former militia leader on Wednesday for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed under former president Bashar al-Assad.

Prosecutors said he committed the crimes from 2012 to 2015 as a leader of the pro-Assad "shabiha" militia in Damascus, tasked ...

The issue of taking in Syrian refugees has been a flashpoint since CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered her famous "we can do this" phrase during the so-called 2015 refugee crisis. Spahn's proposal ...

The end, as it happened, was quick and decisive. Basher al Assad escaped with his family, leaving his gilded, chrome-filled ...

As Germany's election campaign heats up, the opposition CDU wants integrated Syrians to stay but says others need to go.

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.