Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday at migrants demanding to be let through Hungary's newly shut EU frontier, while refugees at other Balkan frontiers clambered through cornfields in search of new routes. Hungary's decision this week to shut the European...

Only four or five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are still fighting in Syria, a top U.S. general told Congress on Wednesday, a stark admission of setbacks to a fledgling military program that critics have already pronounced a failure. The U.S. military began training in May for up...

The Syrian refugee who was tripped at a border hotspot by a Hungarian journalist while carrying his son will live in a Madrid suburb after a Spanish soccer academy convinced him to take an apartment offer and help to rebuild his life. Luiz Miguel Pedraza of the CENAFE school that trains soccer...

At least 8 people were wounded when a car bomb went off in mainly Alawites neighborhood in central city of Homs on Wednesday, State-run news agency said on Wednesday. SANA said "terrorists" detonated a Kia Rio car rigged with explosive near the square of al-Zahra, a key pro-regime...