NATO ships have begun their mission to combat human traffickers in the Aegean, the alliance’s senior commander said Saturday. Gen. Philip Breedlove said the ships arrived on Friday night. “So in a matter of less than two days a political decision was made, a military response was put...

Police are investigating a killing at an asylum center in Sweden after a fight broke out among residents. It is the second such incident in a month after a 22-year- old employee at a refugee center for unaccompanied minors was stabbed to death, prompting concerns that authorities...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal refugee policy, which brought 1.1 million asylum seekers to Germany in 2015, is not sustainable in the long run, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Friday. "This policy, which is justified temporarily, is unsustainable in the long term," he...

Two suspected people smugglers went on trial in Turkey on Thursday charged with causing the death in September of a Syrian toddler, images of whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach shocked the world. The trial of Syrian nationals Muwafaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad opened at the...