Germany deported a man to Syria for the first time since the civil war broke out in that country in 2011, the interior ministry in Berlin said Tuesday. In July, Austria became the first European Union country to deport someone to Syria since 2011. AdvertisementRoughly a million Syrians fled to Germany to escape the civil war, many of them arriving in 2015. The Syrian man deported on Tuesday had served a prison sentence in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia for aggravated robbery, bodily harm and extortion. The ministry said an Afghan man was also deported to his home country on Tuesday.

Source: The Local December 23, 2025 13:40 UTC