A landmine explosion killed seven people, including a child, in Homs province of central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor reported. It detonated as a vehicle with the seven on board passed through a desert road outside the historic city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

A Syrian boy was hospitalised after allegedly being beaten and strangled by an older student at his school in a reportedly racially motivated attack in Turkey. Ramez Al-Housni, 12, was reportedly assaulted by a 17-year-old Turkish student in an unsupervised school playground in Istanbul's...

Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece next month, the Vatican said on Friday, returning to the island of Lesbos, a major port of entry for migrants into Europe. His 35th trip abroad comes just five months after the Argentine pontiff, who turns 85 in December, was hospitalized following...

Nearly 470,000 Syrian have returned to their countries and more of them will go back when the conditions become ripe for their return, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said. “Turkey cannot receive any more refugees as it does not have additional capacity to do so. We have deals...