The devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria have killed at least 50,000 people with many more injured, tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands homeless, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Martin Griffiths told the U.N. Security Council that three weeks...

The warning signs were there from the beginning, now she thinks about it. Rima* was 18 and studying at a Syrian university when her family arranged for her to marry a man several years older than she was. “From the moment we were married he controlled me,” she says. “I actually agreed...

A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun fire. Then they repeat the moves, getting faster with every iteration. It's only a drill. But with the sounds of the real...

The death toll rose to at least 63 in the migrant tragedy off Italy's southern coast after rescue crews recovered several more bodies Monday, driving home once again the desperate and dangerous boat crossings of people seeking to reach Europe. Dozens more were believed to be missing. At...