Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supplies of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of a major government offensive last week. The rebels from three groups...

Tens of thousands of people massed Monday in the eastern German city of Dresden in counter rallies over the anti-migrant movement PEGIDA, with one demonstrator left seriously injured in a brief clash between the two sides. Police said in a tweet that a PEGIDA supporter was...

Like scores of polling stations across the Egyptian capital, a school in the Dokki neighbourhood stood empty Monday, with local residents showing scant interest in the country's no-contest parliamentary election. In the absence of any real opposition, the new parliament is...

 The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants Monday, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. In desperate scenes, several thousand people, many of them Syrians fleeing war, spent the night on the muddy...