At least 13 migrants died off the coast of Turkey Sunday after the inflatable dinghy carrying them to Greece collided with a ferry, Turkish media reported. Four children were among the victims of the accident involving a vessel carrying 46 migrants from the northwestern Turkish port of...

Two U.S. citizens, one British national and three Saudis held for months by Yemen's Houthi group were freed on Sunday and have arrived in Oman, U.S., British and Omani officials and Houthi sources said. Their release appeared to be a goodwill gesture ahead of talks between...

Rebel factions operating in the northern province of Aleppo have carried out Sunday the first car bomb against Ultra-hardline Islamic State group, leaving dozens killed and wounded, rebel commander said in statement. Khaled al-Hammad, General Secretary of Jabhat al-Asala and al-Tanmiya...

Austria says 11,000 migrants crossed into the country from Hungary in the 24-hour period that ended on midnight Saturday. The country's interior ministry says that another 7,000 are expected Sunday at the main Nickelsdorf crossing, east of Vienna. Ministry officials are meeting with...

At least 17 civilians, including nine children and three women, were killed on Sunday when rebels shelled a regime-controlled neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said the shelling Sunday took place in Al-Midan...

Yemen's Shiite rebels and officials at the airport in the country's capital, Sanaa, say six foreign hostages have been released after being held in the city for more than five months. The officials say the hostages are three Americans, two Saudis and a British national. They tell the AP that...

Russia's recent military deployment in Syria was confirmed last July when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad admitted his army's manpower shortage that stands behind the rapidly losses to favor of rebels, Western diplomats told Zaman al-Wasl.  The diplomats assured that Assad has...

A State Department refugee official said on Saturday that U.S. leaders are committed to bringing more Syrian refugees to the United States and that she would like to see a steep increase in their numbers in 2017. Anne Richard, assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and...

Warring parties in Syria have agreed local ceasefires in two Shi'ite villages in northwestern Syria and a town near the Lebanese border, a group monitoring the war and the al-Manar TV station controlled by Lebanon's Hezbollah reported. It will be the third time local ceasefires have been...

Nearly 4,700 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Saturday as they tried to reach Europe but one woman was found dead, Italy's coastguard said. Tens of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have tried to cross the Mediterranean this year, often...

Pope Francis told former Cold War foes Cuba and the United States on Saturday to set an example for the world by deepening the recent rapprochement that he helped broker. His zucchetto skullcap flying off in the Caribbean breeze at the start of a nine-day tour of Cuba and the...

(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) In a deep valley near the village of Kaeb Ammar near the coastal city of Banias, a fortified Russian military base was built up years ago, activists told Zaman al-Wasl as local activists report an intense Russian deployment for forces...

Some 150 migrants entered Austria from across the Slovenian border on Saturday, opening up a new route for the thousands seeking to cross the Balkans into northern Europe. The desperate migrants, who police said crossed the border at various points, were taken to the southern Austrian town of...

A U.S.-led coalition carried out 17 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria on Friday, a U.S. military statement said. In Iraq, 12 air raids hit militant targets near cities including Mosul, Kirkuk and Ramadi, said the statement issued on Saturday. The coalition conducted...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered daily water tests and other measures on Saturday to contain an outbreak of cholera that has killed at least six people in Baghdad's western outskirts. The deaths were in the town of Abu Ghraib, about 25 km (15 miles) west of the capital, hospital...

 The spokesman for Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says some 100,000 security personnel have been deployed to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki says among those securing the massive crowds during hajj are members of an elite...

At least 55 Kurdish militants were killed when Turkish warplanes pounded camps belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday. The jets took off from a base in Diyarbakir, in Turkey's southeast, and later returned without damage,...

At least 750 people were rescued Saturday from three small boats in international waters near the Libyan coast by a ship operated by Doctors Without Borders, a spokesman told AFP. "Over 750 people have been rescued since 5:00 am (0300 GMT)," Yazan al-Saadi, MSF's regional communications...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday Syria's President Bashar Assad has to go but the timing of his departure had to be decided through negotiation. Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond he called on Russia and Iran to use their influence to...

An activist group tracking the Syrian war said on Saturday that Islamist insurgents shot dead 56 members of Syrian government forces in a mass execution at an air base captured from the army earlier this month in northwestern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the mass...