Syria's foreign minister Monday called on the country's refugees to return home, official media reported, without directly commenting on a U.S. ban targeting them. Walid Muallem "renewed the invitation of the government to Syrian refugees living in neighboring countries to return to their...

Germany Monday criticized the "catastrophic" human rights situation for migrants held captive by traffickers in Libya, ahead of an EU summit set to discuss migrant flows through North Africa. Media reports Sunday said that Germany's foreign ministry had warned of "concentration camp-like"...

(The Independent)- Individual stories of those locked out of the US by Donald Trump's Muslim ban are flooding in, with this year's Academy Awards ceremony certainly not excluded from its effects.  It has already been confirmed that both Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The operation team in Syria Mine Action Centre (SMAC) announced that the town of Akhtarin subordinate to Azaz city in Aleppo’s northern countryside is safe and cleared of mines. The teams removed around 400 mines planted by the Islamic State before they left the town. Many...