Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland on Friday "cannot fail," the chief UN mediator in the conflict said in a video message to the Syrian people Thursday. "You have seen enough conferences, two of them already taken place," Staffan de Mistura said on the eve of the intra-Syrian...

Britain is to offer refuge to unaccompanied children from Syria and other conflict zones, the government announced Thursday. Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said his department would fund programs to identify children in camps on Syria’s borders as well as those already in Europe with...

Russia said Thursday it wanted to hold an international meeting on Syria -- including key players from the West and the Middle East -- in Munich next month. "There is an agreement in principle between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary of State John Kerry, and now we will...

Sweden is preparing to deport up to 80,000 of last year's record number of asylum seekers, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said in an interview with business daily Dagens Industri on Thursday. Ygeman said he estimated about 60,000 to 80,000 of the 163,000 people who sought asylum last year...