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Authorities accuse the two Syrians in German custody of membership in a terrorist group and having committed war crimes in Damascus a decade ago. German prosecutors have charged two Syrian men with war crimes they are accused of having committed some 10 years in the Syrian capital Damascus, as part of the so-called Islamic State militant group. In line with German privacy rules, the Federal Prosecutors Office on Friday identified the two men as Mohammad A. and Asmael K. in a statement on its website. Authorities said both suspects were charged with being members of a foreign terror organization and of "hostage-taking resulting in death." What do we know about the suspects? According to German prosecutors, the two men joined the IS group around 2013. Asmael K. was accused of killing people protected under international humanitarian law. He is believed to have guarded 12 prisoners and shot at least one of them dead. Mohammad A. was accused of founding an armed unit...

  Police in Germany found more than 100 Syrians in homes in locations that were searched as part of an investigation into the suspected smuggling of migrants. Police searched locations in northern, western and southern Germany German police on Tuesday conducted raids against a group suspected of smuggling Syrian migrants into the country. Police said they had made five arrests. All were Syrians and asylum seekers themselves. They had family ties and were accused of smuggling more than 100 Syrians, the DPA news agency reported. Authorities issued arrest warrants for two women and a man in Stade, a city in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, and a woman and a man each in Gladbeck, a city in North Rhine Westphalia in western Germany. Migrants paid for passage The people who had arrived had paid between €3,000 to €7,000 ($3,175 to $7,418) each for illegally entering Germany. The suspects then bought gold with the money, the report said. Police said the suspected ...

  DUBAI, 19. März (Reuters) — Der syrische Präsident Bashar al Assad traf am Sonntag zu einem offiziellen Besuch in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten (VAE) ein, begleitet von seiner Frau Asma al Assad, zu einer Zeit, in der mehr arabische Staaten Offenheit für Lockerungen signalisiert haben Isolation von Damaskus. Der Besuch war mit mehr Zeremonien verbunden als seine vorherige Reise in die VAE im vergangenen Jahr, die seine erste Reise in einen arabischen Staat seit Beginn des syrischen Bürgerkriegs im Jahr 2011 war, als Golfstaaten, einschließlich der VAE, Rebellen unterstützten, die gegen Assad kämpften. Staatliche Medien sagten, er sei am Sonntag bei seiner Ankunft in Abu Dhabi von Präsident Scheich Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan empfangen worden und habe einen Kanonengruß erhalten, als sein Konvoi den königlichen Palast betrat. Assads Flugzeug wurde von emiratischen Kampfjets begrüßt. „Wir haben konstruktive Gespräche geführt, um die Beziehungen zwischen unseren beiden Ländern...