Turkey summoned the Russian charge d'affaires on Wednesday and sent him another message Thursday to convey "deep unease" over two incidents in Kurdish militia-controlled Syria, Ankara said. Ankara said one of its soldiers had been shot and killed in southern Turkey on Wednesday by...

(Middle East Eye)- In an aging hotel outside the town of Mytilini, Mohammed wearily waits with his younger brother and their two heavily pregnant wives for updates on their asylum cases.  The group fled the violence in Sukhna, their remote desert hometown in eastern Syria - where...

Germany needs to change its laws so that asylum seekers guilty of benefit fraud are removed from the asylum process, an ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, striking a tough tone six months before a federal election. More than a million migrants have arrived in Germany...

The man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman in an assault on the heart of British democracy was 52-year-old Khalid Masood, who was born in Kent in southeast England, police said on Thursday. London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement that Masood was known by "a number of...