Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to ease the pressure on them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's minister for European Affairs, said on Monday. The number of people immigrating illegally exceeded 150,000 in 2015, and Turkish authorities stopped 500 migrants...

Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance towards refugees. Marking a sharp jump from the caseload of 379 given on...

The death toll of Russian air strikes in Syria's Idlib province has nearly reached 100, as several dozen of those who were critically injured in the attacks on Saturday have died, a volunteer rescue group reports. "After 32 hours of our rescue operation, and following the deaths of...

Islamic State militants left Ramadi's streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq's elite counter-terrorism forces claimed victory against the militant group there, officials said. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar...