Inside a deradicalisation centre in Syria

French jihadist arrested in Syria tells her story.

An Israeli security official confirmed responsibility for overnight airstrikes in Syria, AP reports, saying he spoke on condition of anonymity. J

President Trump's surprising move to order the withdrawal of all US forces from Syria via Twitter stunned Washington. But why he did it and whether his order will be implemented remains murky.

Salafism is a strict doctrine, whose followers advocate Sharia law. The branch of Islam has been linked to violence and support for terrorism. Currently the movement includes many returnees from wars in Iraq and Syria. DW correspondents investigated.

The leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Turkey stressed the importance on Saturday of a lasting ceasefire in Syria, and said a committee to create a new constitution should meet by the end of the year.

Lena Chamamyan left stardom behind when she went to Paris in 2012. She now brings Syria to the concert halls of Europe, playing her songs that fuse Armenian and Arabic music with elements of jazz. On Saturday, she brought her show to Berlin for the first time.

A DMZ is to be established in Syria’s Idlib province, where refugees continue to face harsh conditions. Their relatives across the border in Turkey have their own problems. The two sides keep in touch as best they can using social media.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met outside Berlin on Saturday for talks ranging from the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, to Iran and a gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S. ire.

Dozens of air strikes and shelling hit parts of the last swathe of Syrian territory still held by rebels on Friday, according to rebels, rescue workers and a war monitoring group, in a possible prelude to a full-scale government offensive.

A Syrian father is watching his daughter grow up without him. He fled Syria for Germany in 2015 but has so far not been allowed to have his family join him.

Syria’s allies have so far blocked attempts to bring those suspected of war crimes before the International Criminal Court. Human rights campaigners are pinning their hopes on Germany to press charges based on the principle of universal jurisdiction.