Turkey attempted to convince the world to set up a safe zone inside Syria to stem the flow of refugees from the war-torn country, but nobody heard its voice, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday. He was speaking at a meeting of G20 finance chiefs in Ankara, days after...

The White House on Thursday said it was closely monitoring reports that Russia is carrying out military operations in Syria, warning such actions, if confirmed, would be "destabilizing and counter-productive." "We are aware of reports that Russia may have deployed military personnel...

A Syrian father on Friday buried his wife and his two little boys, drowned as they tried to flee to Europe, while Hungary's leader told Europeans they risk becoming a minority on their own continent. With desperation and anger deepening among people escaping conflict and...

The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his hometown Kobane on Friday to bury his family, an AFP photographer reported. Abdullah Kurdi arrived at the Turkish border town of Suruc with the...