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VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has found a former fighter for a Syrian rebel group guilty of 20 counts of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. The court reached the verdict Wednesday after hearing testimony that the

BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian refugee in Germany won’t pursue further legal action against Facebook after a court rejected his call for an injunction forcing the company to seek and delete posts falsely linking him to crimes committed by migrants.

WURZBURG (GERMANY) (AFP) – A German court was due to rule Tuesday on a dispute between Facebook and a Syrian refugee whose post of a selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel fuelled fake news linking him to terrorism.

BERLIN (AP) — The mayor of Cottbus in eastern Germany is urging people to remain calm after a young Syrian was arrested on suspicion of killing an elderly woman in December.

COLOGNE (GERMANY) (AFP) – A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Germany Monday accused of planning a bomb attack on behalf of the Islamic State jihadist group.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three employees with Swedish broadcaster SVT have been sentenced to community work after being convicted of human smuggling for bringing a 15-year Syrian boy to Sweden during the 2015 migrant influx that swept across Europe.

A top official of the European Union’s (EU) highest court says Member States must grant visas to persons who are at risk of degrading treatment.

(AFP) – An alleged Isis jihadist accused of scoping out potential targets for an attack in Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag building, goes on trial on Wednesday.

Migrants dissatisfied with the quality of life provided for them by Swedish taxpayers are increasingly speaking out, with one Syrian even accusing Swedes of wanting to kill him and his fellow ‘refugees’.

The vice president of the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, fears that the number of Syrian migrants will double due to family reunification laws alone.

The Russian government is now rejecting the asylum applications of Syrians trying to enter the country by saying Syria isn’t “particularly dangerous” for them.

A Syrian couple who were celebrated in the media for naming their child Angela Merkel after migrating to Germany have had their asylum application rejected.

“I want to go back to Syria. There is war in my country, but we’ve been living for seven months in Greece like prisoners.”

A Syrian migrant teen has demanded that all signs and products in Europe should be labelled in Arabic to make migrants feel more welcome.

A left wing expert on Salafism has suggested that Germany has no real culture and that Syrians should be allowed their own city rather than be forced to integrate into German society. Expert on Salafism and Green party member Kurt

BERLIN (AP) — German police arrested early Monday a Syrian man who is suspected of preparing a bomb attack, following a nearly two-day manhunt.

AFP – German police were carrying out a huge manhunt Saturday for a 22-year-old Syrian suspected of planning a bomb attack, after finding “highly explosive” materials in his apartment.

Migrant families from camps in Greece and Turkey say they feel “cheated” to have been resettled in Lithuania, where benefits are lower than in Germany. One family is now looking into filing a complaint with the United Nations (UN).

BERLIN (AP) — A suspected member of the Islamic State group who turned himself in to French authorities and revealed plans of an attack plot has been extradited to Germany.

A bloody family dispute involving a 14-year-old Syrian girl married to her cousin is currently the subject of a trial in Kassel.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have arrested three Syrian nationals in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein suspected of being sent to Germany by the militant Islamic State group, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Migrants with recognised refugee status are holidaying in the countries they supposedly “fled”, their vacations funded by German taxpayers, a newspaper has found.

About 340 other Syrian migrants have been moved to an abandoned holiday resort in the western Peloponnese. For five months, they have been living at LM Village, a beachside resort 280 km (174 miles) west of Athens which fell into disuse six years ago amid disagreements between its administrators.

An undercover report has revealed some of the tactics migrants use to game Germany’s immigration system, and that 80 per cent of those seeking asylum in the country have no papers. Abdullah Khan, who worked four months undercover at a reception centre,

GERMANY (Reuters) – German police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian refugee after receiving a tip-off that he was planning a possible Islamist-motivated attack, state officials in North-Rhine Westphalia said on Tuesday.

A Syrian professor revealed that Arab migrants see “slut” German women as fair game for assault, and warned that the country is set to see “big social conflicts”. Bassam Tibi said that the mass sex attacks in Cologne were a result of the migrants’ “value system”: furious at not being given a luxury lifestyle, they intended to “humiliate” Germans.

Tuesday on Fox Business Network’s “The Intelligence Report,” host Trish Regan criticized Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for her Syrian refugee policy, which she argued was putting our national security at risk. Partial transcript as follows: REGAN: That is Hillary Clinton

The Netherlands has experienced its highest growth in population since the turn of the century. Net migration doubled since last year, and a third of the increase was caused by Syrian ‘asylum seekers’ alone.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (Associated Press) — A specialized court in Bulgaria has opened the trial of three Syrian nationals charged with terrorism offenses.

A senior Labour MP has called for male migrants coming from Syria to the UK to receive formal lessons to prevent against sexual assault. She added that British men also need the classes, which would “provide information on how they should interact with women”.

New police figures for England and Wales have revealed nearly 900 Syrians were arrested for offences including rape, death threats and child abuse in a single year.

Two weeks after Salzburg police made the grim discovery of a dead Serbian national in a bathtub two Syrian migrants have been arrested, confessing to killing the man.

The German region of North Rhine-Westphalia has seen 188 marriages of migrants who are underage, some as young as 14, as calls grow for the government to stop the practice.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Church of England’s spiritual leader will house a family of Syrian refugees in a cottage at his official London residence, Lambeth Palace, from next month, a local councillor said on Wednesday. Archbishop of Canterbury

According to TheRebel reporter Faith Goldy, a freedom of information request yielded 2,700 documents concerning the “fiasco” of placing “unassimilated Muslim migrant men” into Fredericton High School in New Brunswick.

Recent figures from the United Nations show Germany is only second to Turkey worldwide for accepting migrants when previously it wasn’t even in the top ten. Recent figures from the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) revealed that 2015 was the