A 17-year-old Syrian has been stabbed to death in an apparent racist attack in the south of Turkey. According to Gazete Duvar, Faris Muhammed Al-Ali was stabbed to death on Sunday by the 16-year-old son of a Turkish woman working at the same factory as him. Al-Ali was studying medicine...

A former Russian journalist was found guilty of treason on Monday and sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security prison in a ruling widely seen as politically motivated. The sentence handed to Ivan Safronov in Moscow is among the harshest moves against Russian independent journalists and...

 Dozens of Lebanese and Syrian migrants stranded for days on a sinking fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea are urging European coast guards to save them, saying that two children have died. The roughly 60 migrants told relatives and volunteer groups with a satellite phone that two...

Ons Jabeur extended her career-best run at Flushing Meadows by beating Veronika Kudermetova 7-6 (1), 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals. The No. 5-seeded Jabeur was the runner-up at Wimbledon in July and now is into the quarterfinals at a major tournament for the fourth time. Jabeur will...