The number of people who have been forced to flee war, violence and persecution looks set to soar in 2015 past last year's record of nearly 60 million, the UN said Friday. The UN refugee agency released a report showing rocketing numbers of people living as refugees, asylum seekers or...

The Russian Defense Ministry said late on Thursday that senior British military officials had met with their Russian counterparts in Moscow to discuss how best to avoid incidents between the two countries' armed forces at sea and in the air. Britain has complained of increasingly having to...

(Amnesty)- A former detainee holds up a label from one of the items provided to refugees held in the partly EU-funded Erzurum Deportation Centre in eastern Turkey The European Union (EU) is in danger of being complicit in serious human rights violations against refugees and...

Two pro-government fighters were killed in clashes with Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, Kurdish and security sources said Thursday, in a sign of rising tensions between the two sides. The two fighters of the National Defense Forces (NDF), a pro-regime Syrian militia, were killed in an...