France's foreign minister said Tuesday his country was working on a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces from using barrel bombs against his population. The resolution has little chance of clearing the Security Council, where...

Germany's police union and women's rights groups accused the authorities on Tuesday of playing down reports of harassment, sexual assault and even rape at refugee shelters because they feared a backlash against asylum seekers. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called on...

The decision to carry out a deadly air strike that hit a hospital in the Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz was made within the U.S. chain of command, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan told lawmakers on Tuesday. On Saturday, an Afghan hospital run by the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian Turkmen refugees in Lebanon accuse Turkey of ignoring their suffering, there are almost 5,000 families of them in Lebanon. Ibrahim, a-13-year old boy from the village of "Zara" in the countryside of Homs, looks for empty cans, worn-out shoes and plastic...