ROME (AP) — Nearly 300 migrants disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto on Saturday after their rescue at sea in five different operations by the crew of a humanitarian vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders. About half of the 293 rescued passengers on the Geo Barents were...

An aid convoy of the World Food Program (WFP) crossed the regime-held areas controlled to opposition-controlled areas in the eastern countryside of Idlib city, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Saturday. At least 18 trucks loaded with food baskets and flour entered this afternoon from the...

BEIRUT -- Syrian authorities found a mass grave in the historic town of Palmyra with bodies of victims of the militant Islamic State group, which controlled the area years ago, Syria's state news agency said Friday. According to the report on SANA, the mass grave was discovered near the...

Turkish security forces have been accused of preventing hundreds of Syrian migrants from crossing into Greece, a representative of the migrant group organising a convoy dubbed "Caravan of Light" said on Wednesday. "We wanted to cross the border and they refused," a spokesperson for the group...