Istanbul (dpa) - Turkey will start imposing visa requirements on Syrians trying to enter the country, a senior government official said Thursday, as negotiations stepped up between Ankara and the European Union to clamp down on migrant flows. Turkey has largely maintained an "open door...

The Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah said on Thursday that a Saudi-led 34-nation anti-Islamic State coalition was suspicious, and questioned Saudi Arabia's competence to lead it. Hezbollah, which has repeatedly criticized Sunni heavyweight Saudi Arabia over both its military...

An Iranian news agency said on Wednesday the commander of foreign operations for Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards had met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but his spokesman flatly denied the report. Fars news agency said General Qassem Soleimani, who visited Moscow in July to aid...

 In a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Syrians from Raqqa have been coming to harvest cannabis for almost a decade. Now, Raqqa is under Islamic State control and the border crossing is more difficult than ever. One woman recently risked her life for work in Lebanon. Like the...