Greek authorities were gearing up Saturday to send hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, which is racing to set up reception centres under a controversial EU migrant deal. "Planning is in progress," Yiorgos Kyritsis, spokesman for Greece's refugee coordination unit, told AFP as...

Turkey's Coast Guard stopped 63 Palestinians and Syrians trying to cross to a Greek island on Saturday, underlining the scale of the security forces' task in convincing illegal migrants they won't be allowed into the EU. A controversial European Union deal to return rejected asylum...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 regime army soldiers killed on Saturday in an ambush set by the powerful Islam Army in Eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, group's media accounts said. Regime forces backed by allied militias waged major offensive on Saturday from four axis to make advances in...

The Syrian opposition is not optimistic about upcoming peace talks in Geneva because there is no international will for a political transition, opposition member Riad Hijab told Al Araby Al Jadid television late on Friday. The Syrian opposition has consistently said that it...