Overview

• A ministry spokesperson confirmed that Interior Ministry officials will travel to Kabul in October for talks with Taliban representatives on enabling regular returns.
• Alexander Dobrindt said he aims to secure an agreement with Syria this year to restart deportations, beginning with convicted offenders before moving to other rejected applicants.
• Dobrindt instructed the BAMF to partially reopen suspended asylum procedures for Syrians as an operational step toward future deportations.
• Germany maintains no diplomatic relations with the Taliban, previous Afghanistan deportation flights relied on Qatar, and the government describes planned contacts as technical rather than recognition.
• Roughly 955,000 Syrian nationals live in Germany, 1,867 people returned to Syria voluntarily with federal support through August, and 83,150 Syrians were naturalized last year.