Istanbul summit addresses numerous issues, including Idlib demilitarised zone, constitutional reform and refugees. A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed [ More … ]
“The terrorist attack committed by Anis Amri in Berlin should in no way affect the Tunisian-German relations. The perpetrator of this attack does not represent Tunisia, “Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Wednesday told the German [ More … ]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday accused Assad regime troops of committing “crimes against humanity” that could not be overlooked, while UN spokesperson said all parts are committing war crimes in Syria. Human rights groups and [ More … ]
The German chancellor Angela Merkel wants to get other European Union member countries to agree to step up sanctions against Russia because of its role in the war in Syria, a German newspaper reported. The [ More … ]
A Syrian refugee arrested in Germany on Monday was ready to strike imminently with attacks similar to those in Brussels and Paris, and the suspect was probably inspired by the Islamic State militant group, investigators [ More … ]
A senior member of the opposition Syrian High Negotiations Committee (HNC) on Saturday urged the European Union to impose sanctions on Russia over its ongoing military campaign in Syria, especially Aleppo. Assad regime, backed by [ More … ]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russia on Friday to use its influence with the Syrian government to end the devastating bombardment of Aleppo, as her government opened the door to possible sanctions against Russia for [ More … ]
Germany called for making no-fly zone over Northern Syria after one week of the military operation by Assad-Russian forces, aiming at retrieving Aleppo from the rebels’ hands and ending the five-year crisis, killed about 450 civilians. Assad regime, [ More … ]
Germany’s relationship with Turkey has never been so fraught. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have gone from bad to worse with little improvement in sight. The most recent cause of tension came on August [ More … ]
Germany’s foreign minister has said the Bundestag resolution recognizing the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide is non-binding. This declaration came following media reports the German cabinet would disavow the resolution [ More … ]
It was an innocuous-sounding statement via Twitter that would come to rock Europe. Issued in the dead of night by Germany’s Office for Migration and Refugees, it simply announced: “We are at present largely no [ More … ]
Angela Merkel’s open-door policy towards immigrants fleeing Middle East war zones will, in the long run, make Germany safer from terrorist attacks. By showing compassion to hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees, the German Chancellor [ More … ]
German Chancellor Merkel and Turkish President Erdogan have met on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Poland. The leaders, however, made little ground resolving the disputes that divide them after German Parliament infuriated Ankara by [ More … ]
By: Ahmed al- Baqry* A handsome young Egyptian youth in the late twenties walks in a steady pace inside the Reichstag building in Berlin, where the German Parliament “Bundestag” headquarters is located. He was one of [ More … ]
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