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A 21-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has been accused of committing over 400 crimes, including drug offences, thefts, and robberies, within the span of two years as part of a gang terrorising an area in the German town of Plauen.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A court in northern Greece has convicted a Syrian refugee of having been a fighter with the Islamic State group in Syria, and sentenced him to eight years’ imprisonment.

A 20-year-old Syrian national has been charged by German prosecutors in Hamburg with plotting a major radical Islamic terrorist incident which they claim could have killed up to 200 people. 

BERLIN (AP) — Two Syrians have gone on trial in Berlin on allegations they fought with Islamic extremist organizations in their home country.

A 32-year-old Syrian man appeared on German media this week thanking German Chancellor Angela Merkel for allowing him to reunite with his other wife and children despite polygamy being illegal in Germany.

The German city of Cottbus has forced a 15-year-old Syrian asylum seeker and his father to leave town and move elsewhere after he pulled a knife on a local couple last week.

An “underage” migrant, who was presented as being in a romantic relationship with an underage girl in a controversial German children’s channel television programme, has admitted he is an adult.

A 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested in the Dutch city of Maastricht after stabbing two other Syrians to death. and wounding several others. The Dutch police claim that they are not investigating the attacks, which took place on Thursday night,

Three men have been arrested for the attempted firebombing of a Swedish synagogue in Gothenburg, and according to a far-left group all three are recent asylum seekers from Syria and Palestine.

A 29-year-old asylum seeker admitted to a bizarre sex act in which he forced an 83-year-old woman to allow him to masturbate on her although he had previously denied it claiming his penis was too small to have been able to commit the act.

A Syrian migrant deemed to pose a threat who was investigated for terror was able to board a flight from Germany to Greece, despite being electronically tagged.

Noted German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld slammed German Chancellor Angela Merkel on French television saying she had invited the “worst enemies” of the Jewish people to Germany during the migrant crisis.

A Syrian refugee who sexually assaulted six women in London underpasses just one month after being granted asylum in the UK claims he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

A Syrian asylum seeker who shared videos of Iraqi soldiers being executed and jihadists preparing for a suicide mission on Facebook was jailed for two years on Friday.

A pair of Syrian asylum seekers were arrested during their asylum application in Austria after the man whose car they had stolen turned up to the same police station at the same time as them to report the crime. The Syrians

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court has placed a Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of committing war crimes in Syria in pre-trial detention.

A 42-year-old Syrian man has been accused of sexually molesting a 10-year-old girl at a swimming pool in Vienna after the child complained the man had grabbed her inappropriately.

(AP) — Poland’s foreign minister says the government is thinking of temporarily taking in Syrians who need medical treatment. The statement Tuesday by Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski was a significant, albeit cautious, change from the conservative government’s refusal to take

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities say they have arrested a 29-year-old Syrian suspected of membership in the Islamic State group. Federal prosecutors say the man was arrested Thursday in the Leipzig region. In a statement Friday, prosecutors said the suspect

Two weeks after New Year’s Eve Cologne police have changed their report on who they identified on the night, saying most of the men were not North Africans but rather were from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

A German court has made a landmark ruling saying that not all Syrians who arrive in Germany should be afforded full asylum status as they may not be politically persecuted if they return to Syria.

A Syrian doctor who sold his Rolex to pay for 5-star hotel accommodation in London has been arrested outside Home Office premises after demanding that they deport him back to Syria immediately. He has advised Calais migrants to return home to the war-torn country, where he says life is better.

A 15-year-old girl has died in hospital a week after she was found in a stairwell. Police are questioning two Syrians in connection with her death.

A Syrian migrant is to stand trial for attempted murder in Germany after allegedly throwing his three young children from a window and assaulting his wife with a saucepan because they refused “to accept the roles they had back home.”

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks to grant citizenship to some 300,000 Syrians who could travel to Europe when the European Union grants Turkey visa-free access. Turkey has felt the brunt of much of the great migration of the Syrian

Birmingham city councillors have come together to pledge to re home 500 Syrians within the city over the next five years, despite having 30,000 local people already registered on their books for social housing in the area. The waiting lists

(Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all countries on Wednesday to show solidarity and accept nearly half a million Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next three years. Ban, kicking off a ministerial conference hosted by the U.N.

A second wave of migrants is set to break across Europe as the wives and children of men who have already made the journey set out to join them. According to European Union law, migrants already settled in member states

Christian migrants are “frequently” being injured and suffer death threats by Muslims in German asylum centres, an Orthodox priest has warned. He has called on the government to intervene to ensure the safety of Christians, many of whom are now

The French Prime Minister has called on the Arab Gulf States to take in Syrian refugees, warning that a “humanitarian disaster” could erupt in the Balkans if Europe is not able to gain control of her borders. “I’ll say it

Scotland’s pro-independence newspaper The National has published a front page welcome to the first wave of Syrian migrants offered asylum by the British government. Around 100 Syrian migrants are due to arrive at Glasgow airport today aboard a charter flight;

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is refusing to drop her open door migration policy, insisting that the first priority following the terrorist attacks on Paris is to protect “innocent” refugees and restore “hope” to them. Merkel has come under fire within her

The chairman of the youth wing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own party has publicly declared the group’s opposition to Germany’s current open doors immigration policy, arguing that a ceiling on immigration figures should be set. He rejected Merkel’s claims

Europe is bracing itself for a second migrant wave from Syria as up to three million people begin to flee the country in the wake of the Russian military intervention. Russian warships fired 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea

Europe must close her doors and windows, the head of the European Council has said. In remarks following a meeting of the heads of state on Wednesday night, he warned that the migrant flood witnessed so far was only the beginning;

The first of the 20,000 Syrians that Britain has promised to take from camps in the Middle East will arrive in the next few days, with many more to follow soon, the Home Secretary has announced. A minister responsible solely