The European Union Sunday said it was allocating an extra 28 million euros to Jordan to help it meet the urgent needs of Syrian refugees as winter sets in. EU humanitarian affairs commissioner Christos Stylianides made the announcement during a visit to the Zaatari camp in northern Jordan...

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged participants at international talks aimed at resolving the brutal war in Syria to show “flexibility” and welcomed Iran’s participation for the first time in the discussions. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif will join key players in...

The United States said on Monday it was willing to cooperate with Russia, as well as Iran, to try to end the Syrian civil war, but the two big powers clashed over whether to work with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Speaking at the annual United Nations General Assembly, U.S....

Several hundred migrants broke through police lines at Hungary's main border crossing with Serbia Tuesday, forcing police to use pepper spray on one occasion to move a group off a main road. Some 300 migrants, part of a group of 1,500 people waiting for hours at the collection point, bolted...