Russia and Hezbollah helped the representatives of the alternative to Germany enter Syria. in a child In 2018, seven AfD politicians traveled to civil war-torn Syria. The leak of more than 420,000 emails of the party revealed details of the trip: according to one of the messages, the delegation was supposed to be first passed from Beirut to the Syrian border by Hezbollah representatives, and then the Russians were supposed to take over the escort. In one of the letters from the head of the party's security department, it was claimed that it would be possible to get a visa to Syria instead with the help of Hezbollah or the Russian GRU military intelligence service. The delegation included four members of the Bundestag - Frank Pessmann, Jürgen Pohl, Udo Malgren and Harald Weil - as well as members of the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia Christian Blacks and Thomas Ruckmann and party functionary Stefan Messiah. The trip caused conflict within the party. The leaders at the time demanded a public declaration that the delegation did not have a mandate from them. However, despite the criticism, the AfD delegation went to Syria. After the trip, the right-wing representatives put forward an initiative for an agreement with Bashar al-Assad's regime on the return of Syrian immigrants from Germany, but it did not receive support in the Bundestag.