Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country's borders with Europe were open, as thousands of refugees gathered at the frontier with Greece. Migrants played a cat-and-mouse game with Greek border patrols throughout the night and into Saturday, with some cutting...

The "best alternative" to prevent an all-out humanitarian catastrophe in northwestern Syria's Idlib province is to institute a safe zone in the region, the Syria envoy under President Barack Obama said in remarks published Monday. "The best option that eschews direct U.S. military...

 Five civilians died Monday in Russian air strikes backing Syrian regime forces as they chip away at the country's last major rebel bastion, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deadly raids hit the area of Jabal al-Zawiya in the south of the...

The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in response to rockets fired toward southern Israel on Sunday evening, hours after Israel said it killed a Palestinian militant who tried to place a bomb along the Israel-Gaza barrier fence....