Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given a suggestion to build a city in northern Syria for refugees fleeing the war-torn country. In his address at an award ceremony in Istanbul Friday, Erdogan called on the international community to join hands with the Syrian refugees. "Let's build...

  The Syrian opposition said on Friday the government was mobilizing forces on many fronts despite an agreement to cease hostilities, and cast doubt on whether peace talks planned for next week would take place. As rockets fired by government forces were reported to hit near...

Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has sentenced two Syrian smugglers to four years and two months each in prison over the death of 3-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi and four other people. Anadolu Agency said Friday the court convicted the two of human trafficking but acquitted them...

A record 1.25 million asylum seekers arrived in the European Union in 2015, more than double the figure from the previous year, official figures showed on Friday. The Eurostat statistics agency said Syrians were the largest group at nearly 363,000 followed by 178,200 Afghans and 121,500 Iraqis.