Germany will start holding personal hearings for asylum seekers from Syria as of Friday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Thursday, reversing a policy of granting almost automatic refugee status for Syrians. Syrians have since the end of 2014 enjoyed a...

Iran denied Thursday that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf Saturday, rejecting a U.S. report as "psychological warfare". "The naval forces of the Guards have not had any...

Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says is an intrusion of Turkish forces into part of its north. Turkey said it had deployed a force protection unit earlier this month to the area due to...

(The Guardian)- Three months of Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group has said. Russia began conducting its air war in Syria on 30 September in support of its embattled ally, President Bashar al-Assad. According to the...