Veteran Sudan Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, one of the fiercest critics of President Omar al-Bashir's government, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 84, officials said. "The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," the state broadcaster reported. It interrupted its...

Germany and Italy's interior ministers have written to the European Commission calling for an EU-wide system to register migrants and a harmonization of selection procedures and rights for asylum seekers, a German newspaper reported. In the letter seen by Sueddeutsche Zeitung,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given a suggestion to build a city in northern Syria for refugees fleeing the war-torn country. In his address at an award ceremony in Istanbul Friday, Erdogan called on the international community to join hands with the Syrian refugees. "Let's build...

A senior official of a Syrian opposition group in Paris has objected to a resumption of the Geneva peace talks due to take place on March 9, citing unfavorable conditions. Following his meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond and German...