The German military is training more than 100 Syrian migrants for civilian roles suited to helping the eventual reconstruction of their country, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said in remarks released ahead of publication on Sunday. Von der Leyen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily...

(The Daily Star)- A blaze Saturday destroyed large parts of a makeshift Syrian camp in east Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported. Three people suffered shortness of breath in the fire, which erupted at an encampment in Taanayel in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They were treated in a...

When Hanan Dacka fled the civil war in Syria with her family to start a new life in Brazil, the idea that she might one day carry the Olympic torch was beyond the stretch of anyone's imagination. At first, she struggled to settle into school, not knowing how to speak Portuguese. Her family...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian child Ahmed Tawfiq Odeh died today Tuesday morning affected by injuries resulted from the artillery attack on Arsal by the Lebanese army. Ahmed is 5 years old, lives in Wadi Hamid camp at the boarder of Arsal, his father is dead and he...