(BuzzFeed News)- Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government. The infighting between American proxies is the latest...

Turkey's 2.6 million Syrian refugees may be straining the housing and jobs systems, but they're also fuelling economic growth. The world's largest refugee population has had a positive impact on Turkish output, economists and government officials say. It may be partly responsible...

Reporting by Mohamed Yateem; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has been recruiting civilians and government employees to fight alongside the army that suffers severe shortage in manpower. For that, the army has opened number of recruiting camps where thousands of...

Austria, which angered European Union peers by announcing a daily cap on immigration and asylum claims, said on Friday it was happy with the decision and would have to introduce even stricter limits in future. The daily limits, of 3,200 migrants crossing the border and 80 asylum...