Nearly one million people are living under siege in Syria, the UN aid chief said Monday, announcing revised figures. The new figure of 974,080 people marks a dramatic increase from 486,700 Syrians living in besieged areas just six months ago, Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council....

Turkey called on the United States and other nations Monday to rethink its proposal for a no-fly zone in northern Syria as the U.N. expressed deep concerns over the bombing of hospitals in rebel-held parts of Aleppo. Government forces pounded besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition partners on Monday accused her of running out of ideas after she announced she would stand for a fourth term in next year's parliamentary election. The center-left Social Democrats (SPD), junior partner to Merkel's conservatives in their ruling...

 French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people in Strasbourg and Marseille who had been plotting an attack on France for several months, the interior minister said Monday. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said a series of arrests in June and this past Sunday put an end to...