Swedish journalist Fredrik Önnevall, an employee of public broadcaster SVT, has been convicted of human trafficking after bringing a migrant to Sweden but will still get to keep his job.
A Swedish appeals court has confirmed a conviction against the parents of a 13-year-old Syrian girl for attempting to marry her off to a 24-year-old man, while the child’s intended husband has been found not guilty.
Cypriot police say most of the 29 Syrian migrants who have arrived to the Mediterranean island after setting sail from Lebanon told authorities they have relatives living on Cyprus.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot police say 34 Syrian migrants who arrived by boat in the east Mediterranean island nation are seeking asylum.
BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a Syrian refugee on allegations he fought on the side of the Islamic State group in his country’s civil war. The regional court in Duesseldorf sentenced the man, identified only as Saleh
BERLIN (AP) — A 19-year-old Syrian man has been charged in an assault in Berlin last month on an Israeli wearing a skullcap.
A 17-year-old girl living in Sweden claims that she was forced to marry a man at the age of 14 in Syria and when she protested against the forced marriage, she received death threats.
BERLIN (AP) — Three Syrian men accused of membership in Islamic extremist groups have been arrested in Germany. One of them is believed to have tried to recruit people in Germany to fight in Syria’s civil war.
A report from the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) has shown that more than half of the recipients of the Hartz IV welfare income benefit come from migrant backgrounds, with Syrians the largest group in the country.
BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected an appeal by a Syrian man convicted of attempted fraud for seeking 180,000 euros ($222,000) from someone he thought belonged to the Islamic State group while claiming he planned car-bomb attacks.
An 18-year-old Syrian migrant went on a two-hour rampage in the German town of Hagenow, throwing beer bottles at bystanders, smashing shop windows, and stabbing an Iraqi man while shouting “Allah hu Akbar!”
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.
BERLIN (AP) — Two Syrians have gone on trial in Berlin on allegations they fought with Islamic extremist organizations in their home country.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they have detained a 28-year-old Syrian man on allegations he fought with an extremist organization in Syria.
BEIRUT (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has visited a school and clinic for Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon, reiterating his country’s position that aiding those uprooted by the war should take place closer to their home.
A Syrian has been jailed after stabbing a man multiple times in a ‘ferocious’ attack launched just two months after being flown into Britain with his family as a refugee by UK taxpayers. Fahed Shamery was sentenced at Chester Crown
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.
BERLIN (AP) — A judge has ordered a 19-year-old Syrian migrant suspected of plotting a bomb attack in Germany kept in custody pending a possible indictment.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A Syrian refugee has been arrested in northern Greece on terrorism-related charges following a review of his asylum application, police said Friday.
BERLIN (AP) — Four asylum-seekers have gone on trial in Germany accused of executing 36 members of the Syrian security forces while they were members of the Nusra Front extremist group.
A Syrian refugee arrested in connection with the Parsons Green bombing is a “good guy” who “likes to smoke, meet girls, and go to clubs,” his cousin has claimed.
The foster couple who cared for the Syrian ‘refugees’ arrested in connection with the Parsons Green bombing were not warned of the men’s troubled past, friends have claimed.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors have charged a Syrian asylum-seeker and a former fighter with Damascus’ government forces with war crimes on suspicion that he posed in front of dead or wounded combatants from the Islamic State group.
BERLIN (AP) — German officials say a Syrian man being held on suspicion of fighting for an extremist group in his homeland has hanged himself in a Hamburg jail cell.
The German government expects that by 2018 there will be around 390,000 Syrians with approved refugee status making them eligible to make advantage of family reunification rules. Currently, there are around 267,500 Syrians with approved asylum status who are candidates for the
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they’ve arrested a 29-year-old Syrian man on allegations he committed war crimes as a member of the Islamic State group in his home country.
The Cypriot police towed a boat filled with 143 Syrian migrants to the port of Latsi after authorities found the ship off the beach of nearby Pomos as many fear a new wave of migrants from Turkey. The migrant boat was
A migrant who claims to be from Syria has been sentenced to 12 years and 9 months in prison after he abducted and sexually abused two girls, aged 13 and 14, while on bail for the rape of another teenager.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus police spokesman says 85 Syrian migrants who arrived by boat to the island’s northwestern coast have now been taken to a reception centre.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have arrested a Danish citizen suspected of having fought for the Islamic State group in war-torn Syria.
A Syrian asylum seeker given a job at a hair salon has been arrested after he attacked his 64-year-old female boss with a knife. Mohammad Hussain Rashwani, 39, was allowed to work at the Herzberg hair salon in September of
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border police have found 91 migrants from Iraq and Syria hidden in a truck transporting auto parts. They told police they were trying to reach the visa-free Schengen travel zone.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian appeals court has annulled the conviction and ordered a retrial in the case of a Syrian man sentenced last year to 10 years in prison for entering Hungary illegally and committing an “act of terror” by throwing rocks at police during a 2015 border riot.
BERLIN (AP) — Three Syrian men alleged to have been sent to Germany with forged passports by the Islamic State group have gone on trial in Hamburg.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities arrested four Syrian brothers on terrorism charges Monday for allegedly fighting for an extremist group in their homeland five years ago.
(AP) — Turkey’s coast guard says it has intercepted nearly 100 Syrian migrants over two days attempting to reach Greece.
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of membership in the extremist Nusra Front group. Federal prosecutors say the 22-year-old suspect, identified only as Ahmet A. A., was arrested Wednesday in the western state of
BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say they have released a 17-year-old Syrian asylum seeker detained this week on suspicion of planning a suicide attack in Berlin.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official says he’s ordered the re-examination of up to 100,000 decisions granting asylum to migrants after uncovering mistakes in a smaller probe undertaken after a German soldier was able to pass himself off as
(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
