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Greece carries out first relocation of refugees to Luxembourg

Greece  relocated six asylum-seeking families to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first such transfer from its soil under an European Union plan to ease the burden on nations inundated by an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Smiling parents holding young children posed for...

Assad army reopens road to regime-held parts of Aleppo

The Syrian army regained control of a road southeast of Aleppo Wednesday, state television said, taking back the regime's only supply route into the city from ISIS militants who had seized it last month. Army forces took full control of the road which runs from Aleppo through the towns of...

Russian Syria strikes killed 23 civilians: activist

 Airstrikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes on an ISIS-held town in central Syria killed 23 civilians, an activist group said Wednesday. Among those killed in the Monday strikes on the Homs province town of Al-Qaryatain were three children and a woman, the Syrian...

To tackle jihadis, French activist says, ditch reason

Anthropologist Dounia Bouzar used to try religious arguments to turn young people away from militant Islam – and failed. So the 51-year-old grandmother developed her own techniques along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous. Her main rule: Don't try to reason with people....