The UN’s special envoy to Syria thanked Turkey for its acceptance of Syrian refugees Wednesday. Staffan de Mistura met Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Hadi Sinirlioglu in Ankara. "De Mistura conveyed his appreciation for the substantial effort by Turkey in welcoming and hosting a...

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in "books not bullets". Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot on a...

Turkey would struggle to cope with a new influx of refugees from Syria's civil war, and many of them would likely end up trying to get into Europe, Turkey's EU Affairs minister warned in comments published on Friday. Turkey is already sheltering close to 2 million Syrian migrants,...

The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries has passed 4 million, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday, adding that the total was on course to reach 4.27 million by the end of 2015. "This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation. It is a...