Migrants camped on France's north coast continued their bids to reach Britain on Thursday as the first autumn winds blew into their sprawl of tents and shanties and EU leaders arrived in Brussels, 200 kilometres away, to discuss the broader crisis. More than 3,500 migrants fleeing war and...

Syrian rebels said Friday 20 troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the ongoing clashes in in northern and eastern countryside of Homs as well 15 others have been wounded and taken captive in an ambush. Regime troops and their Iranian ally, backed by Russian jets launch major...

Turkish warplanes shot down an unidentified drone in Turkish air space near Syria on Friday and a U.S. official said Washington believed it was of Russian origin. The Russian defense ministry said all of its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and that all its drones...

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked insurgent fighters south of Aleppo on Friday, a source in Syria and a monitoring group and activists said, as the army expands a counter-offensive with support from Moscow's two-week-old air campaign. "The military...