Kurdish militias in Syria must disarm and join Syria's new government security forces, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Friday, after talks with her Turkish counterpart in Ankara. Speaking at a press conference Baerbock said the security of Kurds was essential for a free Syria,

Discussions to possibly lift EU sanctions against Syria are under way but are unlikely to resolve soon, Germany's special envoy to Syria, Stefan Schneck, has told The National. The request to lift sanctions was made publicly this week by Syria's de facto new leader,

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday said Syria's future is "hanging by a thread" as she called on Turkey to help stabilize the country during a visit to Ankara. "Syria must neither become a pawn of foreign powers nor an experiment by radical forces,

Chancellor Scholz says Berlin encouraged by signals from Damascus but emphasizes concrete steps toward inclusive government, rule of law, protection of minorities - Anadolu Ajansı

Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home.

Nearly a decade after hundreds of thousands of Syrians arrived in Germany, many are now well-integrated and settled in jobs — and tens of thousands have gained German citizenship.

Most of them came from 2015-16, after Angela Merkel's government made a decision not to close Germany's borders to refugees fleeing Syria's civil war. The mood at the time was that Germany would ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Germany’s foreign minister on Friday said that Kurdish forces in Syria must disarm and be integrated into the new government’s security apparatus after holding talks with her Turkish counterpart in Ankara.

Many on the centre and Left of German politics argue that Syria is no safer than it was. They also point out that Germany's health service would be in chaos if the country's 6,000 Syrian doctors ...

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday said her country would judge Syria's new Islamist-led HTS rulers "by their actions" amid concerns over the group's roots in radical Islam.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser called on Thursday for a joint European approach to the possible return of Syrian refugees. "I believe it would be very expedient to organize this together," Faeser said,

ANKARA, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Kurdish militias in Syria must disarm and join Syria's new government security forces, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Friday, after talks with her ...