Rumor has it that the 'house of sisters' is where kidnapped women from other Syrian sects are forced to convert to Islam. Nobody knows if it really exists, but it's being used to create communal tensions anyway.

The recent Israeli attack on a Syrian airbase is just one of many Israeli incursions into Syria. In southern Syria, locals say Israeli troops have detained them, destroyed infrastructure and set up military bases.

“Actually I think this is the most erotic area,” says the man who has been described as Germany’s last great porn star, gesturing grandly at the surroundings. He’s waving at a beer tent and sausage stand erected out the back of the world’s largest…

The museum will be described as “a thought-provoking beacon in an era of idiocracy”.

Even at high school, Adam Yasmin was political. When pro-democracy protests began in Syria back in 2011, Yasmin organized after-school demonstrations in his hometown of Jableh — despite the obvious danger posed by security forces loyal to the…

Anti-government protests in Morocco are organized by an anonymous group of youth activists on a platform meant for gaming. They started off with just four members, and now have almost 250,000. DW spoke with one of them.

Life in the shadows of Putin and Trump.

Followers of extremist groups regularly ask how AI can help them plan terrorist attacks. A new study suggests that about one-third of AI chatbots might help them, if asked the right way.

Refugees are being blamed for anti-Semitism, but most anti-Jewish hate crimes are committed by right-wing ‘extremists’, according to police figures. Berlin, Germany – Their words were loud and clear. “Sh** Jews, sh** Jews,” dozens chanted, as they…

Syria has held some of the world's most successful fundraisers, raising as much as $500 million all up. But critics are now asking how the campaigns are run, where the money's coming from and what it's being used for.

It was a lot like the fall of the Berlin Wall. Euphoria at the end of a repressive, authoritarian regime. No need to be careful about what you said to your Mum on the phone any more in case someone was listening.

The number of teenagers arrested on terrorism charges is growing in Europe. How is the extremist "Islamic State" group, with branches in Africa and Afghanistan, convincing European teens to attack its enemies? The Austrian teenager who was shot dead…

In the Middle East, you can't escape Ramadan, so it's not unusual for non-Muslims to take part in the Muslim holy month there. It's a different story in Christian-majority countries, but that may now be changing. It might seem a strange thing for a…

Late last year, while working one afternoon in his atelier in central Beirut, the fashion designer Krikor Jabotian and his 20 or so staff members heard a very loud bang. “It sounded like a bomb,” said Mr. Jabotian, who grew up in the city during the…

German officials are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to argue they can try anyone for war crimes committed anywhere, against any nation's people. BERLIN—Among the Syrians living here in the German capital, Anwar Raslan had long been…

The verdict against Anwar Raslan, who is now serving a life sentence in Germany, was welcomed, but some urge caution. Koblenz, Germany – When former Syrian colonel Anwar Raslan was sentenced to life in a German prison last week, many hailed the…

For four days every summer, a paddock near Matamata turns into a rave for Jesus. Cathrin Schaer listened to Christian punk, attended a sex seminar, put her hands in the hair and discovered why the Parachute music festival is such a hit with the kids.

Will Germany – a country which has focussed on soft power for decades, where soldiers are seen more as "armed social workers" - do about it, if Russia began advancing into Europe? As the war began in Ukraine, it was the obvious question for ordinary…

MICHAEL ELMGREEN and Ingar Dragset are artists who have exhibited from New York to Tokyo. But for the last 12 years, the globe-trotting artistic duo, collaborators since 1995, have lived in Berlin. And at a certain point, they decided it was time to…

Americans who berate Germany for not spending enough on its army might be better off asking why their own country spends so little on foreign aid. The US has not paid its fair share for years. Some Americans really love to bash Germany. The country…