The Obama administration will meet its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2018, the White House said on Monday. The 10,000th Syrian refugee was scheduled to arrive in the...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Illness did not have mercy on her young years, Lenur al-Shareef was born with cancer and after she overcame the illness, her bladder nerve was damaged due to a medical mistake in one of the hospitals in Damascus. She lived for 10 years on urinary...

One person was killed and two others went missing after a boat carrying 15 refugees capsized in the Aegean Sea, a security source said Sunday. The boat had set sail from Cesme town in western Turkey's Izmir province on Sunday morning before it capsized on its way to the Greek island of...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Turkish authorities arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a 9 month old Syrian baby girl, and he is the same man trusted with taking care of the baby while her family were working in one of the farms. Turkish newspapers released similar reports about the incident, Zaman...