A five-year-old Syrian refugee is believed to have died on Tuesday on an unnamed Greek islet in the Evros River from a scorpion sting, according to reports. The young girl was among a group of 39 refugees and asylum seekers, who claim she died after the incident, Al Jazeera reported. The...

Turkey's national human rights body has filed a lawsuit against a government-run deportation centre over the alleged mistreatment of refugees, the organisation announced on Tuesday. Enab Baladi first reported that the Human Rights and Equality Institution of Turkey (TIHEK) had found abuses...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent a significant escalation in the war. Russia denied any aircraft were...

Joe Biden has said that the US knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government is holding Austin Tice – an American journalist who has been missing for a decade – and called on Damascus to release him. Ten years after the freelance reporter disappeared while reporting on the Syrian...