The Trump administration will announce as early as this week plans to withdraw around 4,000 troops from Afghanistan, US media reported. Talks between the United States and the Taliban resumed a week ago as the parties sought a path to reduce violence or even reach a ceasefire. They were...

Key point: TOW missiles used by Syrian rebels blew holes through Russia's armored tanks. The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle East today have amounted to a dreadful human catastrophe with spiraling global consequence. One of their lesser effects has been to deflate the...

The UN Refugee Agency appealed Friday for intensified support for some 4.6 million globally displaced Afghans and their host communities, ahead of next week's first-ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva.  UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch made the call at a UN briefing in Geneva, noting that...

Germany’s refugee housing restriction policy is once again at the center of controversy. Passed in 2016, the Asylum Act was an attempt by the German government to regulate the distribution of refugees to German cities and states fairly and in a manner adapted to their respective capacities....