Liam Neeson got a little break from being famous. Sitting on the floor of a community center courtyard with two dozen local teens, he listened attentively as young Syrian refugees — who had no idea that he's a Hollywood star — talked about the struggles of exile. A 15-year-old girl said...

Six years since a young Tunisian stallholder set himself on fire, triggering revolutions across the Arab world, his country’s suicide rate is surging over economic and social woes, experts say. Mohammad Bouazizi, who self-immolated on Dec. 17, 2010, in protest at unemployment and police...

Unidentified attackers on a motorcycle threw an explosive device at the French embassy in central Athens on Thursday, wounding a guard, police said, in an attack that came less than a week before U.S. President Barack Obama visits the city. "It was probably a hand grenade," one official told...

Iraqi government forces killed and tortured civilians south of Mosul, rights groups said on Thursday, the first such reports of alleged abuse in a U.S.-backed campaign to retake the city from Islamic State. Amnesty International said "up to six" people were found dead last month in the Shura...