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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wahbeh family, who immigrated to Germany from Syria, sits along a river in Berlin on Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ...

Refugees wave a German flag and chant "Mama Merkel" at the Greek-Macedonian border in Idomeni, Greece, on March 7, 2016. At the end of August 2015, then-German chancellor Angela Merkel opened the ...

In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapse, Germany has been gripped by heated political debates over whether Syrian refugees should be encouraged to return voluntarily or face forced ...

Update | German politicians and lawyers fear that an increase in anti-refugee hate speech on German social media and in public is violating the country's strict hate speech laws, as tensions continue ...

The German government said on Sunday that it is taking emergency measures to tighten its borders as a huge influx of refugees continues to enter the country. Germany had taken the lead in welcoming ...

For 14 years while Syria’s brutal civil war raged, Germany provided a safe haven for those fleeing the violence. Now, a year after that conflict ended with the fall of the Assad regime in December ...

Crouched on a curb in a parking lot, smoking furiously, Majedeldin Abdulhai was gathering strength for the next leg of a journey that had already almost killed him. It was August 2015, and for weeks ...

It's nearly 100 degrees in Idomeni, and the thousands of refugees waiting for their number to be called in the Greek border town have nowhere to escape the blazing sun. Among them is 29-year-old Salma ...

With fine stitches, seamstress Reyhane Heidari is sewing a suit made from lace. More than that, the 25-year-old Afghan refugee is pulling together the threads of her life. Reyhane, now working in a ...

Berlin — Nearly a decade after fleeing Syria's civil war, Rahaf Alshaar sat on her couch in a leafy suburb of Berlin sipping Arabic coffee spiced with cardamom. When she, her husband and their three ...