The Wall Street Journal | David Gauthier-Villars: This tiny village in the northwestern corner of Syria became a refuge six months ago as thousands of families fled shelling by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and airstrikes by one of its main allies, Russia. Now, as Turkey seeks Moscows help to seize a strip of northeast Syria, the village ...

Press TV - The United Nations refugee agency says up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to Syria as most of once militant-held regions are now under the control of the countrys army troops. Amin Awad, the director for the Middle East and North Africa of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, further said in a press conference ...

SANA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that conditions are ripe for the return of the Syrian refugees to their country, pointing out that more than seven thousand displaced Syrians have returned to their home from Lebanon only during the last month. During a joint press conference with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil, Lavrov said ...

IRNA Senior assistant to Iran's foreign minister for political affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari said on Tuesday that bylaw for the activities of committee for return of Syrian refugees mome was approved during Sochi meeting and the refugees are to return home. Talking to IRNA, he added that the issue of Syrians returning home was one of the most significant ...

IRNA Senior assistant to Iran's Foreign Minister for political affairs said paving the way for return of refugees, setting up reform committee of the Constitution and activation of committee to exchange arrested and missing people are priorities of Syria. He made the remarks in farewell meeting with French Ambassador to Iran Francois Senemaud at ...

Press TV - Lebanese and Syrian officials are working together to facilitate the return of thousands of refugees who want to return to Syria, a Lebanese official says. "There are contacts with the Syrian authorities about thousands of Syrians who want to return to Syria," Lebanon's head of the General Security agency Major General Abbas Ibrahim ...

CNN - Rahaf Khatib has run six marathons in the last two years. On Monday, she'll run her seventh -- the Boston Marathon -- for Syrian refugees. The 33-year-old runner is the daughter of Syrian immigrants and from Michigan, a state with one of the highest number of Syrian refugees in the country. For her, raising money for refugees was a response ...

One person has been killed and 12 others injured in an explosion at a bar in Germanys southern city of Ansbach. There are conflicting reports about the source of the late Sunday explosion but the citys mayor, Carda Seidel, said it was caused by an explosive device. A spokesman for the regional interior ministry said, "The explosion was set ...

Human Rights Watch says Turkish border guards are continuing to shoot and beat Syrian refugees trying to cross into Turkey, calling on the country to investigate abuses. Turkish border guards in March and April used excessive force against Syrians and a smuggler trying to reach Turkey, killing five people, including a child, and injuring 14 others,...

London (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged at a donor conference in London on Thursday to spend 2.3 billion euros ($2.6 billion) by 2018 to aid Syrian refugees. "I hope this will be a good day for people who live in such suffering," Merkel said in images broadcast on German television as the international meeting got under way. By ...

After months of promises and weeks of preparation, the first Canadian government planeload of Syrian refugees landed in Toronto on Thursday, aboard a military aircraft met by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau was elected to a surprise majority in October promising to accept more refugees more quickly than the previous Conservative government....

New York, Sept 29, IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said laying illogical conditions will protract finding a solution to the crisis in Syria. 'End of clashes and reaching a fair solution and sustainable peace in Syria are tied to formation of a comprehensive transitional government with the participation of all concerned parties ...

PARIS, Sep. 23 (MNA) The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) spoke out yesterday for a large-scale international action to handle the unprecedented refugee crisis in Europe. The objective must be to respond to the immediate needs of the asylum demands and facilitate their integration, said the entity in a report published ...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has made an unannounced visit to the Lebanese capital of Beirut, where he is expected to inspect a Syrian refugee campand meet with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam. The surprise visit by the top British official on Monday comes amid the persisting flow of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to Europe. The ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would meet on September 13 in Jeddah to discuss Syrian refugees situation, said an Iranian Foreign Ministry official. The OIC conference will be held in Jeddah on September 13 to investigate displaced Syrians, said Head of Middle Eastern Department of Iranian Foreign Ministry Hamid-Reza ...

Pope Francis called on Sunday on every European parish and religious community to take in one migrant family each in a gesture of solidarity he said would start in the tiny Vatican state where he lives. "I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to ... take in one family of refugees," he said ...

Turkey is the prime suspect, but the role of Israel cannot be ruled out. The spontaneity of the recent exodus of Middle Eastern refugees from Eastern to Western Europe which has triggered a serious debate in the European Union is pretty much in doubt. A few years after a large number of the Syrian people were forced from of their homes in a war ...

A senior Syrian official has blamed Turkey for theflood of Syrian refugees heading towardEuropeamid growingconcerns over the failure of the international community to do enough to protect stranded Syrian asylum-seekers. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad said Thursday that Turkey has been encouraging the Syrians on its soil to seek refuge ...

[caption id="attachment_143477" align="alignright" width="173"] Syrian refugee children at a refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekka Valley.[/caption] The United Nations has declared that Syrians have surpassed Afghans as the second largest refugee population after Palestinians, fleeing to over 100 nations to escape the foreign-backed war in their country....

She survived an army siege, and fled mass executions and gang rapes in Syria. But it was only after she reached a safe haven in neighboring Lebanon that 13-year-old Fatima tried to slit her wrists. It is not an isolated case. After three years living in refugee tents, depression, self-harm, suicide attempts and other mental health problems are ...