Australia will take an extra 12,000 asylum seekers displaced due to the crisis in the Middle East, says the country's prime minister. "Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the Syria/Iraq conflict," Tony Abbott told reporters in the Australian capital, Canberra, on Wednesday. The figure would be on top of the existing 13,...

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 ...

[caption id="attachment_110320" align="alignright" width="241"] Pallets of bottled water are loaded on board a C17 transport plane for an airdrop to Iraqi refugees. Photograph: Sgt Vernon Young/US Air Force/EPA[/caption] WASHINGTON The United States on Saturday continued its double-barreled efforts to address the crisis in Iraq, as three American ...