Turkey on Sunday began accepting onto its territory Syrian refugees fleeing the battle between Kurds and Islamic State (IS) jihadists for the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, an AFP photographer said. Dozens of Syrian refugees, many carrying sacks of possessions, started passing through the...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African judge on Sunday ordered authorities to prevent Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is in South Africa for an African Union summit, from leaving the country because of an international order for his arrest, human rights activists said. Al-Bashir appeared...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a snap election would be "inevitable" if both the ruling AK Party and the main opposition fail in efforts to form a new government within the constitutional limit of 45 days. In comments published on Sunday in Milliyet newspaper, Erdogan said he planned to...

 Syrian state television and an official say two bombs have exploded in government-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs, wounding more than two dozen people. The TV report said the first attack Sunday was a car bomb outside a school that wounded 27 passers-by. A local official...