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Spanish police stage raids targeting Assad family's assets

Police in southern Spain Tuesday staged raids targeting assets of the family of Syrian leader Bashar Assad, a judicial source said. The raids, in the Puerto Banus marina area of the plush resort of Marbella, are the result of a corruption investigation launched in France against Assad's...

Number of people displaced from Mosul exceeds 300,000

More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from the northern Iraqi city in October, the United Nations said Tuesday. The United Nations' International Organisation for Migration estimates the number of people currently displaced to...

UN warns Syria refugee aid funds 'desperate'

The U.N. warned Tuesday the plight of millions of Syrian refugees was becoming "desperate," with aid funds running low as donors and humanitarian groups met in Brussels to discuss the next steps. The EU and the U.N. are co-chairing a two-day conference to follow up on a London meeting last...