Germany took in 280,000 asylum seekers in 2016, about one third of the previous year's record figure, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. At the height of the huge refugee and migrant influx to Europe in 2015, a total of 890,000 people came seeking safe haven in the EU's...

Government aircraft pounded rebels and their extremist allies in northern Syria overnight, activists said Wednesday, as Moscow announced new peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan on Jan. 23. Air raids targeted the rebel strongholds of Atarib and Khan al-Assal in Aleppo province, the Syrian...

President Barack Obama didn't just say farewell to the nation. He said goodbye to Air Force One, too. Obama's roundtrip to his Chicago hometown, where he delivered the speech, marked the 445th time that he's flown aboard the familiar, eye-catching blue and white U.S. government airplane with...

A top Iraqi commander says the operation to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS could be complete in three months or less. Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati said in an interview with the AP Tuesday evening that "It's possible" Mosul will be liberated in three months or less. But he warned it is...