Portraying Hungary as a border fortress against illegal migration into Europe is a central theme of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's close-fought campaign for re-election on April 3, but Hungary's borders still appear increasingly porous. France was overwhelmed by migrants, said Orban in a...

A Syrian refugee was shot dead by a Lebanese robbery gang in the Central Bekaa Valley, one of the victim’s relatives told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The gang pretended to be security officers when they broke into his house in al-Omariya town on Sunday but soon a quarrel erupted, and the gang...

Israel's Arab minority and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip have raised $10 million in less than a month to build homes for Syrian refugees, according to activists behind the campaign. "The idea was to collect 100 heaters for 100 houses. Then we found out that people...

The government of Sweden sought Friday to discredit claims that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children, saying the allegations “are wrong" and are "seriously misleading and aim to create tensions and spread mistrust.” In a Twitter thread devoted to what it termed “a...