The United Nations will urge international donors to pledge up to $10 billion on Tuesday to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the need for humanitarian support has never been so great. In the fifth annual conference to keep...

The number of foreigners living in Germany increased by 1.8% last year, the lowest rate in a decade, according to official figures released Monday. The Federal Statistical Office said the foreign-born population rose by about 204,000 to 11.4 million, in a year when Germany and other...

Despite the worsening humanitarian situation across war-ravaged Syria, it's been getting tougher every year to raise money from global donors. The aid community is bracing for significant shortfalls ahead of a donor conference that starts Monday in Brussels and is being co-hosted by the...

Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...