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...

These heartbreaking images show the terrifying moment an overcrowded dinghy packed with refugees deflated and left them swimming desperately to shore. One picture shows a breathless fully clothed father carrying his two-month-old baby boy through the water in a rubber ring as their crammed...