European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc's history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond. Luxembourg, which holds the rotating EU...

At least 13 people, including 6 children, have been killed on Sunday in Syrian regime air strikes on Eastern Ghouta Suburbs near Damascus, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 7 people, including 3 children, have been killed in missile attack on Saqba town in the...

 The Islamic State militant group has detained 230 Iraqis over the last two days for organizing anti-Daesh protests in Iraq’s western Anbar province, a provincial official said Sunday. “Thirty people were detained by the terrorist group on Sunday in the western town of Al-Rutba...

A leading member of Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Sunday said his movement had not been invited to attend next month’s scheduled meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). “This is a coup against legitimacy represented by Hamas, which holds the most seats in the...