Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday at migrants demanding to be let through Hungary's newly shut EU frontier, while refugees at other Balkan frontiers clambered through cornfields in search of new routes. Hungary's decision this week to shut the European...

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...