Greece  relocated six asylum-seeking families to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first such transfer from its soil under an European Union plan to ease the burden on nations inundated by an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Smiling parents holding young children posed for...

Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in. They made it to safety during the flooding last week, but a network of Palestinian tunnels running...

One person was killed in clashes in southeastern Turkey Wednesday, security sources said, as violence continued to rock the mainly Kurdish region days after a general election. Turkish jets pounded 16 targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq for a second...

The Syrian army regained control of a road southeast of Aleppo Wednesday, state television said, taking back the regime's only supply route into the city from ISIS militants who had seized it last month. Army forces took full control of the road which runs from Aleppo through the towns of...