Germany has announced plans to give shorter residence permits to the Syrians arriving in the West European country as refugees, and deny them the right to be reunited with their families. In a Friday interview with Deutschlandradio, the national German public radio broadcaster, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the new measure is in line with those of other European Union (EU) governments,... 

Donald Trump, politician and billionaire, plans to evict all Syrian refugees as soon as he takes office as President. Republican presidential hopeful Trump said during his speech in New Hampshire that he would deport all Syrians from the country in case of his victory in the US presidential election. “They could be ISIS, I don’t know,” Trump told a crowd of more than 3,500 at a high... 

Refugees have started heading from Serbia to Croatia instead of Hungary, which has rushed to set up a razor-wire fence to stop their flow onto its soil. A first busload of Muslim refugees arrived near Serbia’s border with Croatia on Wednesday. The group, which mostly consisted of Muslims from Pakistan masquerading as Syrians or Afghans, came off at the Serbian border town of Sid after an overnight... 

US-led airstrikes have killed 52 Syrian civilians in one day, a monitoring group reports. There was fighting in the vicinity, but the strike allegedly failed to kill even a single Islamist fighter. “Airstrikes by the coalition early on Friday on the village of Birmahle in Aleppo province killed 52 civilians,” the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. Seven... 

Some 60,000 Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours, fleeing Islamic State (IS) militants who are advancing on dozens of villages close to the border. Turkey opened a stretch of the border on Friday after Kurds fled their homes, fearing an attack on the border town of Ayn al-Arab, a Kurdish commander on the ground said. Local Kurds also said they fear a massacre in Kobani, whose... 

Syrians carry picture of President Bashar al-Assad during a demonstration in Damascus on April 30, 2012. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his government has successfully overcome the political crisis and the deadly violence in the country. “Syria has been able to overcome the pressures and threats it has faced for years and is able to get out of this crisis thanks to the strength of its people... 

Damascus: Syrians hold up a large national flags as they rally to show their support for their President Bashar al-Assad in the capital in Damascus. The “illegitimate” decision to suspend Syria from the Arab League has received wide support from the EU and the US. Russia, however, has strongly opposed the measure, which is starting to look like another step on the road to a Libya-style scenario. During... 

More than 1,500 Syrian refugees crossed to Turkey on Thursday, according to state-run Anatolian news agency, as the Syrian army swept up to the border in its campaign to stamp out anti-government protests. The provincial government in Hatay said on Friday morning that the total number of refugees registered at the temporary shelter camps had reached 11,739, compared with 10,224 a day earlier. Most...