Germany is no longer the number-one destination for asylum seekers in the EU after the end of the Assad regime led to a drop in Syrians applying for protection in the bloc, a report confirms.

A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent.

A man burns a picture of Bashar al-Assad close to Syria's border with Lebanon. Rebels launched a shock offensive across Syria in late November, ousting al-Assad and ending more than half a century ...

Assad’s most-notorious death factory, the hangings had become routine. Once a month, around midnight, the guards at Sednaya ...

A German court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian man of crimes against humanity and jailed him for life over offences committed during his time fighting for former President Bashar al-Assad. The man ...

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 ...

When Bashar al-Assad’s hold on Syria was loosened after 53 years of brutal autocratic rule by him—and, before that, his father Hafez al-Assad—no one anticipated how quickly the regime would ...

An alleged former Syrian prison guard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity under former president Bashar al-Assad, prosecutors said Tuesday.The man, ...

Bashar al-Assad was then thrust into the national spotlight and studied military science, later becoming a colonel in the Syrian army. ... Germany and Italy deemed a “fraudulent election. ...

Syamend Al Othman, 31, hopes the next government will boost the economy Al Othman, a Syrian Kurd, came to Germany in 2014. He currently works in online marketing but dreams of opening his own ...

German ministers on Sunday said supporters of fallen president Bashar al-Assad's government would face justice in Germany if they fled to the country after the toppling of the Syrian strongman.

Germany has no diplomatic contacts with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and no plans to rekindle ties because of the threat posed by the militant group Islamic State (IS), a ...