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From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast [...]

From air and by sea, using radar, telephone and radio, officials watched and listened for 13 hours as the migrant ship Adriana lost power, then drifted aimlessly off the coast [...]

Many Greeks have grown frustrated as tens of thousands of asylum seekers languished on Greek islands. Now, evidence shows, a new conservative government has a new method of keeping them [...]

Those who lived under the Islamic State greeted the news about the group's leader with grim satisfaction at best. ''He deserves a worse and more abhorrent death,'' one said. BAGHDAD [...]

The killings, one of them caught on video, raised the specter of wider sectarian warfare as fighting in Syria escalates. Turkish-backed Syrian Arab fighters killed at least two Kurdish prisoners [...]

BERLIN -- As the host of an Arabic-language talk show in Germany, Jafaar Abdul Karim is supposed to be the man with the answers. But his answers are not always [...]

HEIDE, Germany -- When Ayham Ebrahim fled the war in his native Syria in 2016 and joined his wife, a pediatrician, in Germany, he was eager to continue his career [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Seven years ago, Islam Dabbas, an engineering student, was thrown in prison for protesting against the Syrian government. His mother visited him twice, paying bribes to do [...]

SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England -- One was an 18-year-old Iraqi orphan who was known to neighbors of his elderly foster parents as a troublemaker. The other was a 21-year-old from Syria who [...]

ISTANBUL -- For Mohammed, an Iraqi civil engineer, the cruelest experience of his life was not when his father tortured him for being gay. It was not when Islamic State [...]

ISTANBUL -- Six years of war in Syria have ravaged the life of Ebrahim Abbas, 27. Mr. Abbas, a computer technician, was detained for protesting against the Syrian government, besieged [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The United States military suffered its first combat death in Syria on Thursday when a service member was killed in the northern part of the country, an [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- In Moscow on Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia laid bunches of flowers in memory of the victims of [...]

ISTANBUL -- Turkish border guards killed at least 11 Syrian refugees, including at least three children, who were trying to cross into Turkey illegally on Sunday, Syrian activists and a [...]

ISTANBUL -- Turkish border guards have killed or injured more than a dozen Syrian refugees as they tried to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued [...]

Hassan Aboud, a feared Islamic State commander and double amputee who led the jihadist group's rank and file in a string of prominent battles in Syria, died Wednesday from wounds [...]

ISTANBUL -- A Syrian journalist and filmmaker who documented atrocities by the Islamic State in Syria and trained hundreds of citizen journalists has been killed in a Turkish town near [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Insurgent commanders say that since Russia began air attacks in support of the Syrian government, they are receiving for the first time bountiful supplies of powerful American-made [...]

ISTANBUL -- The smugglers had promised Abdullah Kurdi a motorboat for the trip from Turkey to Greece, a step on the way to a new life in Canada. Instead, they [...]

ISTANBUL -- The Islamic State may have used chemical agents in an attack against civilians and rival insurgents in northern Syria late last week, according to local rebels and an [...]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- An airstrike by the American-led military coalition in northern Syria this week killed eight civilians, including two women and five children, according to neighbors and relatives of [...]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- A Pentagon program to train moderate Syrian insurgents to fight the Islamic State has been vexed by problems of recruitment, screening, dismissals and desertions that have left [...]

ISTANBUL -- A suicide bombing struck a cultural center in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Monday, killing at least 30 and wounding more than 100 in an [...]

AKCAKALE, Turkey -- The laborers work all day, piling bags of fertilizer onto carts and wheeling them through the crossing that connects this southern border town to Syria. The Syrian [...]

NBC News on Wednesday revised its account of the 2012 kidnapping of its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, saying it was likely that Mr. Engel and his reporting team had [...]

ISTANBUL -- After maintaining an open-door policy throughout the four-year conflict in neighboring Syria, Turkey has moved this month to close the two remaining border gates between the countries, shutting [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBEIRUT, Lebanon -- Kurdish militias regained full control of the northern Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, driving Islamic State militants out with the help of American-led airstrikes, Kurdish [...]

MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Turkey will allow Iraqi Kurdish forces, known as pesh merga, to cross its border with Syria to help fight militants from the group called the Islamic State [...]

MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Gun battles and explosions echoed from the embattled Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on Wednesday, as Islamic State militants detonated a car bomb and new American-led airstrikes [...]

ISTANBUL -- Islamic State militants pushed on Monday into the eastern edge of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish border, after sustained shelling that drove back the [...]

MERTISMAIL, Turkey -- Islamic State militants swept into a Kurdish village in Syria on Wednesday just across the border from this Turkish hamlet, as farther south, in the western Syrian [...]

MURSITPINAR, Turkey -- Shelling intensified Sunday on Kobani, the Syrian town at the center of a region of Kurdish farming villages that has been under a weeklong assault by Islamic [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Jordanian warplanes on Wednesday destroyed three vehicles trying to enter the country from neighboring Syria in an unusual strike that underscored Jordan's intensive efforts to maintain control [...]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- It appeared to be a huge step forward for the scattered rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria: the creation of a central body [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Seven of Syria's most powerful rebel groups said that they had forged a new Islamic force seeking to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad and replace [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- He was a Syrian rebel commander who led homegrown fighters like himself and had a prescient view of the conflict: a Syrian insurgency with nowhere else to [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- An extremist group linked to Al Qaeda routed Syrian rebel fighters and seized control of a gateway town near Syria's northern border with Turkey on Wednesday, posting [...]