The largest convoy yet of armed fighters and civilians left a devastated pocket of Eastern Ghouta early on Tuesday, further emptying the onetime Syrian rebel bastion. regime troops, backed by Russia and loyalist militia, launched a ferocious assault more than a month ago to retake the...

Syrian migrants trying to cross from Turkey to Greece are being beaten by Turkish coastguards, it was claimed yesterday. A Syrian couple with the first names Aladdin and Bushra filmed the moment their dinghy was stopped at night. Children and women could be heard screaming as they...

French police are investigating whether the death of an elderly Jewish woman stabbed and burnt to death in her Paris apartment last week was an anti-Semitic murder, a judicial source said Monday. Mirelle Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was found dead Friday inside the...

Fourteen EU member states have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in an orchestrated reaction Monday, over the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the U.K. At least 43 Russian diplomats have been expelled across Europe so far.  "As a...