Only four or five U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are still fighting in Syria, a top U.S. general told Congress on Wednesday, a stark admission of setbacks to a fledgling military program that critics have already pronounced a failure. The U.S. military began training in May for up...

Several dozen migrants entered Croatia from Serbia early Wednesday, the first to enter the EU country after Hungary sealed its borders to thousand of people entering every day, an AFP correspondent saw. The group of mostly Syrian or Afghan men, women and children crossed the border – which...

Germany today threatened cash penalties for countries which refuse to support a compulsory quota system to distribute asylum seekers around EU nations. Thomas de Maiziere, the German interior minister, said he supported the idea of exerting pressure by cutting the funding reluctant nations...

Images of a father struggling to hold his baby above the waves and of drowned Syrians washed ashore have not deterred Racha Sattout from gambling her life to seek sanctuary in Germany after fleeing a Syria ripped apart by war. For her and thousands of others waiting to cram onto rubber...