{"id":35866,"date":"2026-03-25T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/35866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:47:12","slug":"german-foreign-office-working-to-locate-journalist-missing-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/35866\/","title":{"rendered":"German Foreign Office working to locate journalist missing in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The German Foreign Office says it is working to clarify the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a German journalist in Syria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesman in Berlin stated that the German Embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus, was working hard on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The embassy in Beirut, which is responsible for consular affairs, is also in contact with the Syrian authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No further information was provided. \u201cBut rest assured, we are working hard to clarify the situation,\u201d said the spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to media reports, the journalist from Cologne went missing in northern Syria in mid-January in connection with an offensive by the Syrian Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The K\u00f6lner Stadtanzeiger newspaper reported, citing family members, that she had been arrested together with a Turkish colleague by forces of the Syrian transitional government and taken away in a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Der Spiegel magazine quoted the woman\u2019s brother as saying that she and her colleague had sought refuge in a youth centre, where they were tracked down, placed in cars belonging to the Syrian Interior Ministry and driven away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Foreign Office says it is working to clarify the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a German&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[16059,16060,16061,16062,16063,95,6410],"class_list":{"0":"post-35866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-federal-foreign-office","9":"tag-german-embassy","10":"tag-german-foreign-minister","11":"tag-joint-press-conference","12":"tag-mohamed-ali-nafti","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-syrian-authorities"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116291072373952139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}