Islanders on Europe's southern edge have become used to tragedy and trauma, they see it every day in the thousands of asylum seekers who land on their shores -- and they say they have had enough. The locals of the remote fishing community on Lampedusa island rush to help every time but their...

The U.N. secretary-general recommended Monday that approximately 100 people from the United Nations and the world's chemical weapons watchdog agency be part of an unprecedented and dangerous joint mission to eliminate Syria's poison gas stockpile. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in...

The head of the Syrian National Coalition Monday listed conditions that need to be “guaranteed” in order for the main opposition group to participate in the proposed Geneva II conference aimed at solving the 30-month Syrian conflict. “We do not reject participation in Geneva II...