The UN refugee agency warned Greek authorities Friday over what it called the illegal return of 10 Syrian refugees to Turkey. "The UNHCR is seriously concerned by the illegal return of Syrian nationals from Greece to Turkey," UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told a news conference at the UN in...

Hundreds of people in Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo on Thursday demonstrated against Russia’s planned 'evacuation' of besieged parts of the city. Protesters gathered in Aleppo’s Al-Shear neighborhood, waving banners and shouting slogans -- in Arabic and English -- expressing...

Armed men have attacked an overcrowded dinghy carrying migrants off Libya, leaving at least four dead and up to 25 missing, the German NGO Sea-Watch said Friday. The group said the Italian coastguard had sent a Seawatch rescue ship and a diverted oil tanker to help a dinghy in distress in...

Syria's army and Russia's air force halted their bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Friday, a monitoring group said, on the second of four consecutive daytime unilateral ceasefires in the city that have been rejected by insurgents. Heavy clashes took place in Aleppo during the...