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 firestorm of protest among Syrian women and,

The Syrian refugee whose selfie with then-chancellor Angela Merkel went viral almost a decade ... on to become a 'voice for people who come from Syria'. Modamani has settled in Germany, has ...

Almost a decade ago, a Syrian refugee's selfie with Germany's then chancellor Angela Merkel went viral ... He said he originally fled Syria because he "did not want to perform military service" for Assad's regime, and that now he doesn't want to return ...

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.

Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad fled the country after a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, ending five decades of rule by his clan.

Almost a decade ago, a Syrian refugee's selfie with Germany's then chancellor Angela Merkel went viral ... He said he originally fled Syria because he "did not want to perform military service ...

BERLIN — Nearly a decade after he arrived in Germany from Syria and took a selfie with then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, Anas Modamani has finished his university studies and has a German passport.

After over a decade of conflict, the Syrian Civil War seems to be over. In a handful of days, the forces of Bashar al-Assad have collapsed and he has fled to Moscow. Across Britain and Europe, many in the Syrian diaspora have celebrated in our streets.

Amid uncertainty about what would come next in Syria, several European countries suspended ongoing ... the desire of some conservative politicians to overcome the trauma of [Angela] Merkel,” says Nils Schmid, a foreign-policy spokesman for Germany ...

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 in the British House of Commons. “The Lion of Damascus” was now “the rat of Damascus, fleeing to Moscow with its tail between its legs,” he said.

The German bipartisan folly on Russia has been different, but also harmful. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder supported Putin wholeheartedly and approved of Putin’s favorite project, Nord Stream, a gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, after he had lost the elections in 2005.

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 firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.