The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants Monday, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia. In desperate scenes, several thousand people, many of them Syrians fleeing war, spent the night on the muddy...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Turkey the prospect of support for faster progress on its bid to join the European Union on Sunday in return for cooperation in stemming the flow of migrants and taking back those rejected by Europe. Speaking in Istanbul at a joint news...

(Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Samah Abo Baker, a Palestinian from Syria and former journalist in “Alikhbaria” the regime's news TV, sought asylum in France a year ago, but now, she is at brink of being thrown in street because “KAD” organisation let her down...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Awasl- Arsal)- Nahla Ayosh, a-50-year- old widow from Qusayr in Homs’s countryside, is responsible for 5 daughters, and two granddaughters, lives in a tiny tent in Lebanese border town of Arsal after her husband and only son were killed. She told Zaman...