ROME (AP) — Nearly 300 migrants disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto on Saturday after their rescue at sea in five different operations by the crew of a humanitarian vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders. About half of the 293 rescued passengers on the Geo Barents were...

BEIRUT -- Syrian authorities found a mass grave in the historic town of Palmyra with bodies of victims of the militant Islamic State group, which controlled the area years ago, Syria's state news agency said Friday. According to the report on SANA, the mass grave was discovered near the...

Turkish security forces have been accused of preventing hundreds of Syrian migrants from crossing into Greece, a representative of the migrant group organising a convoy dubbed "Caravan of Light" said on Wednesday. "We wanted to cross the border and they refused," a spokesperson for the group...

The Syria Response Coordinator Team said that thousands of Syrian families in northwest Syria are facing the beginning of winter amid poverty and destitution, amid expectations that temperatures will drop dramatically in the coming months. The local relief group said in a statement that...