Sen. John McCain displayed a photo of the body of a 3-year-old Syrian refugee on the Senate floor Wednesday as he urged stronger leadership from President Barack Obama on Syria. McCain, a Republican, stood next to an enlarged, close-up photo of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his 5-year-old...

Western states have provided counter-terrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling Islamic State, the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria. The internal security force, known as...

A car hit three migrants walking along the main road in the dark near the city of Szeged in southern Hungary and one of them died in hospital Thursday, police said in a statement. The other two were seriously injured in the accident near the Roszke migrant camp on the Serbian border. Hundreds...

Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, Reuters said on Thursday, Islamic State used at least two car bombs in its latest...