WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Veronika Oleksyn- The world would be a better place if dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi were still in power, top Republican US presidential hopeful...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM- Some 100,000 places in reception centres will be provided along the Balkans migrant route starting in Greece to help the EU cope better with the historic influx, European...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Laurent Barthelemy / with Marwan Ibrahim in Kirkuk- Kurdish and US forces stormed an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq on Thursday, freeing some 70 captives who were...

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, Bojan Kavcic- The EU Wednesday called a mini summit with Balkan countries on the migrant crisis, as Slovenia became the latest state to buckle under a surge of refugees desperate...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Iran will not work to keep Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power "forever", Iran's deputy foreign minister said during a trip to Britain on Wednesday. It was the first...

KLJUC BRDOVECKI, CROATIA, Lajla Veselica with Bojan Kavcic in Ljubljana- Slovenia on Tuesday called in the army to help it manage a flood of refugees seeking to reach northern Europe ahead of winter,...

OTTAWA, CANADA- Canada's prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he told US President Barack Obama that Canadian fighter jets would withdraw from fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and...

MADRID, SPAIN- 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,...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY- A criminal court in Turkey ordered the detention of four people suspected of involvement in the double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed over 100 people, the Anatolia news...