Germany and Austria are working on a proposal for a common European asylum law, Germany's refugee crisis coordinator said in an interview with German magazine Focus. Hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere have arrived in...

  A former Lebanese prisoner of Israel freed in a 2008 swap deal with Hezbollah has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria, the party's Al-Manar television reported early Sunday. Al-Manar said in its morning broadcast that Samir Kuntar was killed in an Israeli airstrike...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many militias help the Syrian regime in its battles against rebels in the countryside of Latakia like National defense forces (NDF), Baath Brigades, its commander Hossam Khadra was killed in the Battle of al-Anfal in spring last year. Syrian...

 Eighteen people drowned overnight when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea as it was heading for the Greek island of Kalymnos, Turkish media reported early Saturday. Another 14 people, among them Syrians, Iraqis and Pakistanis, were pulled to safety by the Turkish coastguard, the Dogan...