Turkish authorities on Saturday detained at least two human traffickers after they shuttled some 120 Syrian refugees to the Aegean coast in a sign Turkey may be stepping up efforts to curb the flow of migrants to Europe. Gendarmes stopped the group, mostly made up of women and...

A total of 135 people were killed in the first week of a fragile truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. In areas not covered by the ceasefire, which came into force on Feb. 27, 552 people were killed,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Erbin's activists have formed the first human rights association in the embattled Eastern Ghouta Suburbs, local council said on Saturday. Residents have elected seven members, including a woman, to handle the association that will be affiliated to the towns' local council....

Germany and Italy's interior ministers have written to the European Commission calling for an EU-wide system to register migrants and a harmonization of selection procedures and rights for asylum seekers, a German newspaper reported. In the letter seen by Sueddeutsche Zeitung,...