(AFP)- Out of the 283,000 migrants caught illegally entering the European Union in 2014, more than 220,000 arrived via the Mediterranean Sea, according to EU officials. The Mediterranean has largely replaced land borders as the favoured point of passage, with nearly 171,000 arriving via that...

Jordan's 20-year-old crown prince on Thursday called for measures to prevent the world's youth from being "lured into the dark world" of Islamic extremists as he became the youngest person ever to chair a Security Council meeting. Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah presided over the debate on...

Washington is working with Iraqi leaders to hone military operations against Islamic militants and is mulling whether to train Iraqis to directly call in US air strikes, a US official said Thursday. During a visit to Washington last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi last week urged...

Syrian rebels' seizure of the main frontier crossing with Jordan has dealt a heavy blow to the Damascus government's efforts to revive a once thriving export trade crippled by civil war, and is also hurting businesses across the region. Western-backed mainstream insurgents took control...