(Middle East Eye)- In an aging hotel outside the town of Mytilini, Mohammed wearily waits with his younger brother and their two heavily pregnant wives for updates on their asylum cases.  The group fled the violence in Sukhna, their remote desert hometown in eastern Syria - where...

Australia rejected 500 Syrian refugees on security grounds during more than a year of vetting while accepting 12,000 eligible for resettlement from Middle Eastern camps, an official said Thursday. Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the deadly rampage near Britain's...

Six-year-old Aya al-Souqi, a Syrian refugee, held the camera phone up to her gaze and listened to hear her mother. "I hear you!" she exclaimed. It was only the second time she'd spoken to her mother in Beeskow, Germany since getting fitted with a hearing aid by a Chicago-based charity to...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish hospital refused to admit Sham, a Syrian infant in Turkey who suffers of big Meningocele, because her parents have not obtained the refugees ID card yet. Sham from Deir Ezzor, she was born with big Meningocele, almost as big as her size,...