A senior Bavarian politician said on Tuesday that refugees with forged Syrian passports have disappeared in Germany and there are grounds for suspicion that they may have had contact with Islamic State militants, German media reported. The minister spoke after top-selling daily...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu has slammed Russia for bombing moderate rebels and civilians in Syria, arguing that Moscow's aerial campaign has boosted ISIS. Davutoglu told members of his ruling Justice and Development party that Russia has mostly been "targeting moderate opposition...

Turkish police on Tuesday fired tear gas cannisters and used water cannon to disperse thousands of people protesting in the southeast against the military crackdown on Kurdish rebels, an AFP photographer said. The protesters sought to march on the Sur neighbourhood of the...

The number of refugees and migrants arriving by land and sea in the European Union has passed 1 million this year, while a further 3,600 died or went missing, the U.N. refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. Half of those arriving were Syrians fleeing...