AfD members visited Syria with the help of Hezbollah and the Russian military - the Handelsblatt publication obtained correspondence from a former AfD employee on security issues, which were published after the party's data was leaked. According to his letters, in March 2018, seven party members, including four members of the Bundestag, were able to travel from Beirut to the Syrian border with the assistance of Hezbollah, and will then be accompanied by the Russians. In Syria, the delegation met with representatives of the Bashar al-Assad regime. At the same time, Russian aircraft were helping government forces bomb Eastern Ghouta, the last major rebel enclave near Damascus. After the return, the participants of the trip said that Syria can be considered a "safe country" and advocated the return of Syrian refugees from Germany. In 2019, some of them visited Damascus again, this time as part of the official contact group of the AfD parliamentary faction. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.

AfD members visited Syria with the help of Hezbollah and the Russian military - the Handelsblatt publication obtained correspondence from a former AfD employee on security issues, which were published after the party's data was leaked. According to his letters, in March 2018, seven party members, including four members of the Bundestag, were able to travel from Beirut to the Syrian border with the assistance of Hezbollah, and will then be accompanied by the Russians. In Syria, the delegation met with representatives of the Bashar al-Assad regime. At the same time, Russian aircraft were helping government forces bomb Eastern Ghouta, the last major rebel enclave near Damascus. After the return, the participants of the trip said that Syria can be considered a "safe country" and advocated the return of Syrian refugees from Germany. In 2019, some of them visited Damascus again, this time as part of the official contact group of the AfD parliamentary faction. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.