Pro-government forces in Syria clashed with ISIS fighters around a military air base in the north of the country on Tuesday as they tried to break the extremists' siege of the facility, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces fighting on the side of the Syrian...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken with U.S. President Barack Obama over the phone, which included talks over the ongoing Syrian stalemate, Turkey's presidential press office said Tuesday. Erdogan and Obama discussed the importance of making joint efforts to empower the moderate...

Tripoli (AFP) - When young Moroccan Rachid paid $1,500 to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, he never thought he would end up instead in a Libyan detention centre. Just before the 25-year-old was set to leave Libya, local authorities carried out a raid in Garabulli, about 60...

The Greek coastguard on Monday said it had discovered over 300 refugees hidden in a yacht that ran aground near the island of Lesbos. "The coastguard found and rescued 345 refugees," the agency said, adding that the yacht was discovered on Tsonia beach in the northeast of the island....