At least 12 refugees have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their boat sank near the Foca district of the western Turkish province of Izmir. The Turkish Coast Guard found the bodies on Thursday while on patrol. However, 26 other people were rescued, including children and women, and 12 more...

Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing," and he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked by a pool reporter at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos...

An Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent is missing and is believed to have been kidnapped while reporting in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz. Hamdi al-Bokari, a Yemeni national, was last seen around 10pm on Monday in the middle of the war-torn central city, according to a statement by Al Jazeera...

On New Years Eve in Cologne, Germany, a number of women said they were sexually harassed by a group of men that may have included some asylum seekers. Recent reports though show that Syrian refugees in Cologne helped protect an American woman from organized attacks. Hesham Ahmad Mohammad, 32,...