United Arab Emirates forces based in Yemen's port city of Aden have freed a British hostage who had been held by al Qaeda, state news agency WAM said on Sunday. The hostage, who went missing in Feb. 2014, was taken to Abu Dhabi on a military plane on Saturday night, the agency said....

More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in a no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday, after police allowed them to pass despite earlier trying to hold back the crowd using stun grenades. The dash across the border was the latest dramatic chapter...

After a brief respite aboard a Greek passenger ship, Syrian refugee Mohamed has found himself stranded on a filthy, chaotic strip at the Macedonian border, his way to the relative security of northern Europe blocked by razor wire and riot police. The 20-year-old geology student,...

At least 52 people have been killed in stricken Douma on Saturday as the Syrian regime fierce aerial campaign extends on the rebel-held town northeast of Damascus, 6 days since a massacre committed against 117 civilians and branded as war crime by UN officials. Rescue workers said 20...