Germany has lost track of 30,000 rejected asylum seekers, Bild daily reported on Thursday, piling pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to agree a migrant policy with potential coalition partners that ensures no repeat of a migration crisis in 2015. The paper said migrants were on a December...

Daesh (ISIS) may have just lost the last major city of its self-proclaimed "caliphate", but experts and officials warn this is far from being the extremists' deathblow. Analysts say the Syrian army's recapture of Deir al-Zor announced Friday will push Daesh underground after losing...

Cyprus police say food and medical care are being given to 176 migrants who reached the island's northwestern coast aboard a boat. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou told The Associated Press that the 16-meter (53-foot) vessel arrived Friday afternoon after setting sail from a point near...

A senior US official met Syria's national security chief in Damascus this week, a senior regional official close to Damascus told Reuters on Friday. This is the highest ranking visit to Syria by a US official since the start of the civil war in 2011. The Lebanese newspaper...