In August, some 3,000 Syrians returned to areas of their home country cleared of terrorist groups by cross-border Turkish military operations. Taking refuge in Turkey as civil war gripped Syria, they were able to return after applying to a voluntary return program. The Turkish migration...

American Muslim cleric Hamza Yusuf has caused outrage after a YouTube video in which he mocked the plight of Syrian refugees emerged this week. In a three and a half minute video posted on Monday  entitled "We Have Humiliated Ourselves", Yusuf mentioned one of the early slogans of...

The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution renewing its mission in Libya for another year and pledging to support struggling efforts to build a ceasefire in the war-torn country. Libya has been mired in chaos since an uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer...

Italy said on Thursday it had done a deal with EU countries to share out migrants aboard a charity ship at sea in the Mediterranean, resolving the first of what may be repeated episodes that will test the new government in Rome. The Ocean Viking, run by French charities SOS Mediterranee and...