Syria

Airbus boss calls on Germany to open up labor market to refugees

Germany should deregulate its labor market and create more lower-paid jobs to help refugees find wor...

Oct 26, 2015 08:26 AM EDT

Britain's Blair says 2003 Iraq invasion played role in Islamic State rise

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged the 2003 invasion of Iraq played a part in the...

Oct 26, 2015 08:14 AM EDT

Swedish police say sword-wielding school killer driven by racist motives

A masked swordsman who killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others, all with immigr...

Oct 23, 2015 07:26 AM EDT

Saudi foreign minister says Russian actions in Syria "very dangerous"

Russia's actions in Syria are fuelling the country's war, which can only be ended with an unconditio...

Oct 22, 2015 09:20 PM EDT

Putin uses Assad visit to talk up Kremlin role as Syria broker

Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremli...

Oct 21, 2015 06:44 PM EDT

New PM Trudeau to Obama: Canada's Islamic State combat mission to end

Canada's Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, who came from behind to trounce his Conservative r...

Oct 21, 2015 04:26 AM EDT

Syrian rebels say they receive more weapons for Aleppo battle

Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supp...

Oct 20, 2015 08:52 AM EDT

China repeats opposition to force in Syria

China's foreign minister has repeated his country's opposition to the use of force to resolve the cr...

Oct 16, 2015 01:44 AM EDT

Small Turkish town haunted by lost sons, hand of Islamic State

In a small teahouse in the conservative southeastern Turkish town of Adiyaman, two brothers would ho...

Oct 15, 2015 08:44 PM EDT

Syrian army and Russian jets target rebel towns north of Homs

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked rebel-held towns north of the city ...

Oct 15, 2015 08:15 PM EDT

Iraq using info from new intelligence center to bomb Islamic State: official

Iraq has begun bombing Islamic State insurgents with help from a new intelligence center with staff ...

Oct 14, 2015 01:24 AM EDT

Top China paper says U.S., Russia playing Cold War game in Syria

China's top newspaper on Tuesday accused both the United States and Russia of replaying their Cold W...

Oct 13, 2015 01:34 AM EDT

Bomb attack deepens divisions as Turkey faces bitter election

Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet a...

Oct 12, 2015 01:49 AM EDT

Russia's Putin, Saudi defense minister agree to cooperate in Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Arabia's defense minister on Sunday, in Moscow's biggest ...

Oct 11, 2015 08:38 PM EDT

Islamic State makes closest advance to Aleppo, Iranian killed

Islamic State fighters have seized Syrian villages on the outskirts of Aleppo from rival insurgent f...

Oct 09, 2015 07:23 AM EDT

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