U.N. refugee agency UNHCR expects 1.4 million refugees to flee to Europe via the Mediterranean this year and next, it said in a revised appeal seen by Reuters Thursday, a sharp rise from initial estimates of 850,000. "UNHCR is planning for up to 700,000 people seeking safety and...

The commander of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia said the country's civil war could continue for 10 years, in an interview published Thursday by monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sipan Hemo, whose group has seized wide areas of territory from ISIS in northeast Syria this...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl (ALEPPO)- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on Wednesday morning has breached the truce held with rebels  in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city, targeting the bystanders on the Castello road by sniper shots that left two...

World trade will grow by 2.8 percent this year and could fall back further by a U.S. interest rate rise, China’s economic slowdown or Europe’s refugee crisis, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday. The forecast, revised down from a 3.3 percent forecast made in April, means 2015 will be...