Libyan coast guards rescued 324 migrants, including 35 women and 16 children, on Monday off the coast of northwestern Libya, local authorities said. According to a statement issued by the Libyan coast guard, the migrants were located seven miles from the town of Zuwara. The migrants...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia denied Monday agreeing a deal with Damascus for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive. "There is no agreement. There is only a call from us for the Syrian army to come in and protect the borders," YPG spokesman Nouri...

Militias allied to the Syrian government will enter the Afrin region within hours, Syrian media reported on Monday, after a Kurdish official said a deal had been struck with the Syrian army to help Kurdish forces end a Turkish offensive there. Turkey said in response that it would...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that reports that hundreds of Russian mercenaries had been killed in Syria recently were an attempt to exploit the war there, the RIA news agency reported. About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were...