Fifty-eight migrants rescued by the Aquarius charity ship disembarked in Malta Sunday after nearly a week at sea fearing the authorities would impound the vessel, an AFP journalist said. The migrants, mostly Libyans, boarded two buses at Valletta after being transferred off-shore from...

A Syrian rebel alliance has not pulled any heavy arms from the country's north, its spokesman told AFP Sunday, denying reports it had begun implementing a demilitarization deal there. Moscow and Ankara reached a deal earlier this month to create a buffer zone around the opposition...

Voting began Sunday across Iraq's Kurdistan for a new parliament in the autonomous region which is mired in an economic crisis a year after an independence referendum that infuriated Baghdad. More than 3.1 million voters are eligible to cast ballots across three provinces in the northern...

Pro-Turkey rebels began Sunday withdrawing from areas in northern Syria under a deal brokered by Ankara and Moscow to avert a large-scale military assault on the country's last major opposition stronghold, a monitor said. Fighters from the Faylaq al-Sham group "began pulling out of...