With al-Assad gone, German opposition raises return of Syria refugees

A day after Syrian rebel groups seized control of the capital Damascus, senior leaders of Germany's conservative CDU/CSU bloc suggested encouraging refugees to return to the country. Bashar al-Assad, Syria's strongman president, fled to Russia after a coalition of rebel groups, including Islamist extremist fighters, swept through formerly government-held areas of the country in a rapid offensive. Germany should now charter aircraft to send Syrians who had fled from al-Assad's regime back to thei