Germany agreed with Austria Friday to new rules for a more "orderly" passage of migrants, as the death of 17 children at sea highlighted the treacherous journey of those trying to reach Europe. After a week in which tensions flared between the neighbour states, Germany's interior...

At least 91 people, including 17 children, were killed on Friday in attacks on opposition strongholds in the north and outside Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The deaths came as top diplomats from 17 countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, met for the first...

U.S. special operations forces will arrive in northern Syria within the next month to start a wide-ranging advisory mission that will stop short of accompanying fighters on operations against ISIS, a U.S. defense official said on Friday. The senior U.S. official, who briefed Pentagon reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 60 civilians on Friday were killed in the northern province of Aleppo due to regime's deadly airstrikes and missile attacks on rebel-held towns and neighborhoods, activists told Zaman al Wasl. 20 people have been killed in Russian surface-to-surface missile hit...