German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her open-door policy on refugees in an interview published Saturday ahead of a key party congress and an EU summit likely to see her stance come under fire. Merkel said she was working on reducing the number of migrants coming to Europe's biggest...

A meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Riyadh on Thursday did not represent all opposition groups from the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. "We cannot accept the attempt by the group which met in Riyadh to assign itself the right to speak on behalf of the entire Syrian...

A powerful car bomb exploded near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs Saturday, killing 16 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by ISIS, the provincial governor and an activist group said. ISIS in a statement said it was behind the attack, and said it consisted of a car...

A U.S. government agency report has warned that Islamic State has the ability to create fake Syrian passports, a federal official confirmed on Friday. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the contents of a story by CNN on Friday about the report,...