Slovenia on Tuesday called in the army to help it manage a flood of refugees seeking to reach northern Europe ahead of winter, as the small EU state became the latest trouble spot on the migrant trail. With at least 9,000 people landing on Europe's beaches every day, there appeared to...

A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, but no tsunami threat was detected, seismologists said. The quake hit at a depth of 131 kilometres (81 miles) about 335 kilometres from the capital Port Vila, the United States Geological Survey said....

UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Israelis and Palestinians on Tuesday they were at a "dangerous abyss" and must act quickly to calm nearly three weeks of unrest before it spirals further out of control. The stark comments came as the UN secretary general made an unannounced visit to...

At least 11 people have been killed Tuesday in northern province of Idlib in regime air strikes, activists and a monitoring group said as regime troops and their Shiite allies, backed by Russian jets continue a major assault north and west Syria. the Syrian Network for Human Rights said death...

Turkey is ready to accept a political transition in Syria in which President Bashar Assad remains in symbolic power for six months before leaving office, two senior government officials said on Tuesday. "Work on a plan for Assad's departure is underway ... (Assad) can stay for six months and...

At least three Russians fighting alongside Syrian government forces were killed and several more wounded when a shell hit their position in the coastal province of Latakia, a senior pro-government military source said on Tuesday. If confirmed, the deaths which occurred on Monday night would...

Israeli fire killed a Palestinian during clashes on the Gaza Strip border Tuesday, Gaza medics said, in the latest unrest to erupt in the coastal enclave. Ahmed al-Serhi, 27, was killed along the strip's eastern border with Israel, while five others were wounded. Violent protests in...

U.S.-led forces conducted 15 airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq on Monday, eight of them near the contested Sinjar area, and two airstrikes in Syria, the U.S. military said. The Sinjar strikes destroyed 26 militant fighting positions, five vehicles, 10 assembly areas and three command and...

Over half a million refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in Greece this year and the rate of arrivals is rising with over 8,000 coming on Monday alone, in a rush to beat the onset of freezing winter, the United Nations said on Tuesday. U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman...

(Writing by Faris AL Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mahmood al-Naser, former detainee in the Syrian regime’s prisons, cannot forget his painful and traumatising experience, not only the pain of torturing, but the suffering of other detainees who were like alive bodies waiting to die....

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...

U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford played down the chances of any Russian air campaign in Iraq in the near future as he made his first trip to Iraq since becoming the top U.S. military officer this month. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Oct. 1, the same day Dunford...

The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) plans to open a mission in Russia, a move that would anger Turkey which sees the party as a terrorist group, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday. Leaders of the Kurdish group will hold consultations with the Russian foreign...

Russian air strikes in Syria's Latakia province killed a top rebel commander from a group armed by President Bashar al-Assad's foreign enemies, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 45 people - both rebel fighters and civilians - were...

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...

Syrian actor and singer Amer Sebaie passed away on Monday in the Egyptian Six October city due to heart attack, activists told Zaman al Wasl. The pro-Syrian revolution artist,  who was in med fifties, had echoed support for his people in many occasions after the uprising erupted in...

Mohamed Hassan Safa, a Hezbollah field commander has been killed in Syria, days after the death of number of the party’s most senior military chiefs in Syria, Hezbollah media outlets said.

(Writing by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Amal, the 23-year-old Syrian girl was hesitant to talk about her traumatizing experience during detention in Syrian regime’s prisons. Amal joined the revolution since the beginning, despite she is from Hama, the Syrian city known of...

The United States is working to avoid the "total destruction" of Syria, and plans a meeting in the coming days with Russian, Saudi and Turkish leaders to seek an end to the conflict, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday. Washington considers that it bears the responsibility "to try and...