A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul Monday. Around 700 mostly Syrian men, women and children from a group that had been blocked for the past week at Istanbul's main bus station set out overnight on foot for the...

At least 55 Kurdish militants were killed when Turkish warplanes pounded camps belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday. The jets took off from a base in Diyarbakir, in Turkey's southeast, and later returned without damage,...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees hoping to cross the Turkish border into Greece or Bulgaria will be removed by the weekend, the local governor said Thursday. Dursun Ali Sahin, the governor of Erdine province bordering Greece and Bulgaria, said the refugees, who are mostly Syrians, would have to...

Britain Monday announced it had appointed a minister to deal specifically with the 20,000 Syrian refugees that the country has agreed to resettle from camps bordering the war-torn country. "The queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Richard Harrington MP as a Parliamentary...