The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his hometown Kobane on Friday to bury his family, an AFP photographer reported. Abdullah Kurdi arrived at the Turkish border town of Suruc with the...
The Turkish parliament approved Thursday a motion to extend the mandate authorizing the Turkish Armed Forces to take military action in Syria and Iraq. The motion extends mandate allowing Turkish army for cross border operations against "terrorist threats" and permitting foreign forces to...
Jihadists of the Islamic State group have blown up three of the famed tower tombs of Syria's ancient desert city of Palmyra, the country's antiquities chief said Friday. "They blew up three tower tombs, the best preserved and most beautiful," Maamoun Abdelkarim told AFP. News of...
Four people, suspected of human trafficking resulting in the death of 12 people, have been taken into custody Thursday in Turkey’s south-western province of Mugla, security sources said. Sources from the smuggling and organized crime police office said Thursday that four Syrian citizens had...
Canada's Conservative government came under fire on Thursday after it emerged that the family of a Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach had wanted to emigrate to Canada, rattling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's re-election bid. A photograph of the body of...
Faced with a surge in migration from the Middle East and North Africa, two European countries are exploring the possibility of erecting towering steel security fences along parts of their borders, similar to Israel's barrier with Egypt. Hungary and Bulgaria have made preliminary...
(CBC)- The father of a Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach says his boys "slipped away" from his hands after their rowboat capsized trying to reach the Greek island of Kos from Turkey with several other refugees. The death of Aylan Kurdi, 3, who...
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said images of a drowned Syrian toddler on a Turkish beach showed the need for urgent action by Europe to address the migrant crisis. "He had a name: Alyan Kurdi. Urgent action required - A Europe-wide mobilization is urgent," he wrote on his Twitter feed...
Syrians are caught between government bombardment of civilian areas and ruthless Islamist groups in a conflict increasingly driven by foreign powers and marked by the "spread of extremism", U.N. war crimes investigators said on Thursday. Islamic State or ISIS forces, who control large parts...
Kurdish militants set off a roadside bomb that killed four Turkish police officers as they traveled in an armored vehicle in the southeast of the country on Thursday, officials said. Militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have mounted daily attacks against security forces since a...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Battles in the northern countryside of Aleppo city between the Islamic State and other fighting factions forced hundreds of families living in the area to flee their homes due to heavy shelling by ISIS on the towns and villages around "Mare`"...
The family of a Syrian toddler whose body washed up on a Turkish beach had been trying to emigrate to Canada after fleeing the war-torn town of Kobani, one of their relatives told a Canadian newspaper on Thursday. A photograph of the tiny body of three-year old Aylan Kurdi washed up in...
Islamic State's Yemen branch claimed responsibility for two bombings at a mosque in a northern district of the capital Sanaa that media run by the Houthi militia said killed at least 28 people and wounded 75 on Wednesday. The al-Mo'ayyad mosque, run by the Houthis in the al-Jarraf...
Russia is delaying the launch of an international investigation aimed at assigning blame for chemical weapon attacks in Syria, U.N. Security Council diplomats said on Wednesday, though Moscow's U.N. envoy said the holdup was for technical reasons. In a letter to the 15-nation council...
CALAIS, France/BUDAPEST - Hundreds of migrants poured overnight onto the high-speed railway linking Paris with London near the French port of Calais, stranding passengers in darkness aboard Eurostar trains. Thousands of miles away, the bodies of other migrants washed up on a...
Syrian air force extended its deadly raids on rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, killing 10 civilians, 6 women and 4 children, medics and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 6 women and 4 children have been killed in regime air strikes on the stricken city...
At least ten people were killed and dozens wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Latakia on Wednesday, Reuters said, in a rare attack in a coastal stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad. The explosion was in a main square, state television said. Video footage on state...
Libya's official government is struggling to woo oil majors in a bid to control oil revenue and force a rival Tripoli government into a U.N. peace deal because foreign clients are wary of breaking with the established state energy firm in the capital. The battle over Libya's oil resources...
At least 11 Syrian migrants drowned as two boats sank after leaving southwest Turkey for the Greek island of Kos, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported on Wednesday. It said a boat carrying 16 Syrian migrants had sunk after leaving the Akyarlar area of the Bodrum peninsula, and...
Hundreds of migrants protested in front of Budapest's Eastern railway station on Wednesday, shouting "Freedom, freedom" and demanding to be let onto trains bound for Germany but the station remained closed to them. More than 2,000 migrants, including families with children, were...
