Syria’s sports federation has complained to basketball’s world governing body after Kazakhstan welcomed its team with the Iranian national anthem, instead of the Syrian, to the game at the first leg of Asian qualifiers for World Cup 2023. Syrian players appeared perplexed when the song...

Pope Francis leaves for Cyprus and Greece next week, a five-day trip during which he is expected to bring some asylum seekers back to Italy. After a visit to Greece in 2016, the pope brought back 12 refugees from a camp on the island of Lesbos on the papal plane to Rome. A second group...

In the opposition-held town of Sarmada near the border with Turkey, thousands of displaced Syrians go about their daily lives with little hope of returning to their homes any time soon. Row upon row of tents, brick homes and other structures with water tanks on top dot the town, making...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of people trying to enter Europe without authorization has risen significantly this year to surpass migrant border crossing figures from 2019, before restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited travel, the European Union’s border and coast...