As Syria's regime presses a fierce assault on eastern Aleppo, its siege is making life ever harder for civilians who being forced to sift through garbage for food and scavenge firewood from bombed-out buildings. With winter setting in, shortages of food, medicine and fuel coupled with intense...

Fears of possible sectarian conflict continued to mount on Friday as Shia militiamen surround northern Iraq’s Daesh-held, Sunni-majority city of Tal Afar. Fighters from the Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias, now surround the city -- populated mainly by...

The European Union should not freeze Turkey's negotiations to join the bloc, Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, a day after members of the European Parliament voted in a non-binding motion in support of such a freeze. "It is important that we keep talking," Foreign Ministry...

Germany’s leading airline Lufthansa cancelled nearly 830 flights scheduled for Friday as pilots continued a strike for a third consecutive day. Lufthansa said the industrial action would affect all flights within Germany and Europe, and ground 830 short- and medium-haul flights. Since...