Chancellor Angela Merkel won a hero’s welcome as she visited a Berlin migrant center Thursday, with Syrians cheering and taking selfies as Germany threw open its doors to thousands of refugees. “We are so happy Mrs. Merkel came to see us today,” said a joyful Ramadan Salah, a 35-year-old...

 If reports that Russia is boosting its military presence in war-wracked Syria prove true, this would "complicate the picture and be a negative development," Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday. "I hope that the news in recent days on Russia's presence is less...

Western states have provided counter-terrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling Islamic State, the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria. The internal security force, known as...

A car hit three migrants walking along the main road in the dark near the city of Szeged in southern Hungary and one of them died in hospital Thursday, police said in a statement. The other two were seriously injured in the accident near the Roszke migrant camp on the Serbian border. Hundreds...