This week, Germany made a small yet important decision regarding how it deals with Syrian migrants. Instead of deporting the migrants to the first European Union country they arrived in – as Germany was allowed to do for decades under an old E.U. regulation known as the Dublin...

President Mahmoud Abbas is acting to shake up Palestinian politics with peace talks with Israel in deep freeze and unity efforts with Hamas Islamists who run the Gaza Strip stalled. In power for more than a decade, and facing a mounting challenge to his stewardship, Abbas, 80, resigned...

(Reuters)- As many as 50 refugees were found dead in a parked truck in eastern Austria on Thursday, the Krone newspaper reported, saying initial indications were that they suffocated. The interior ministry had no immediate comment on the report. Tens of thousands of refugees...

Islamic State has seized new territory from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group tracking the war, said it had seized five...