The Greek government agreed Friday that it is essential to reduce the number refugees on Lesbos, according to an official announcement. Officials met in Athens to discuss the migration crisis and focused on the thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on Lesbos island. After...

The Syrian opposition has called on the European Union to sanction Russia for what it says are war crimes in Syria. Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) member Bassma Kodmani also urged the EU to consider every option for civilian protection after Russia’s direct involvement...

More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site that is located in Jerusalem, was in danger. The religious and political leaders, representing at least 50 civil society organizations and...

Next to the rusting shell cases outside Misrata's museum of Libya's 2011 uprising is a new addition: a scaffold used by Islamic State in Sirte to display bodies of executed prisoners, mounted on a would-be suicide bomber's captured truck. Five years after Misrata's fighters killed Muammar...