A boat packed with up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Wednesday and many were feared dead, officials and aid agencies said. The Italian Coast Guard and the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said about 400 people had been rescued and 25 bodies...

More than 2,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe this year, data showed Tuesday, bearing testimony to migrants' increasingly desperate attempts to reach the continent. "Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and...

A number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have declared their support for the Turkish proposal to establish a “safe zone” in northern Syria, saying they are willing to return and live in such a safe zone. The Syrian refugees, who have suffered the bitterness of refuge for four years, cling to...

Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, in statement issued Friday, said members of the U.S.-backed group it had abducted two days ago are no more than agents to 'America', with main role serves its projects and interests in the region. Nusra Front had abducted late on Tuesday the leader of a U.S.-backed...