In 2015, with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and elsewhere marching toward Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

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 ...

Amid a refugee crisis, Germany's federal government could spend 93.6 billion euros ($106.2 billion) on housing, language lessons and other basic needs over the next five years, a German weekly ...

Germany reintroduced border controls on Sunday after admitting it could no longer cope with a record influx of migrants, tightening the screws ahead of a key EU meeting on spreading the burden of the ...

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 ...

The campaign marks the 5th anniversary of the Syrian war. — -- When Gunter Nitsch was 11 years old, the only thoughts on his mind were feeding his hunger and keeping warm. In 1949, he and his ...

The influx of refugees and migrants to Europe reached staggering new levels this year, dominating headlines and prompting stormy political debate. The main route shifted from the dangerous ...

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 ...