More than 2,000 Syrian refugees who had fled into Turkey crossed back on Monday, security sources and witnesses told Reuters, as a gate reopened a few days after Islamic State militants were ousted from the frontier town of Tel Abyad by Syrian Kurds. Amid tight security on the...

Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie on Saturday described a spiraling global refugee crisis as an "explosion of human suffering" whose causes the international community refuses to confront. Jolie, who serves as a United Nations special envoy for refugees, was speaking at a...

Refugees seeking to return to the Syrian town of Tal Abyad after fleeing fighting there last week were stuck on the Turkish side of the border Thursday amid conflicting accounts over who closed the frontier. Turkish authorities said refugees were not able to cross because Kurdish People's...

While the exodus from Syria has become the world's biggest refugee crisis, the United States is being criticized by relief organizations and some within President Barack Obama's Democratic Party for allowing only a limited flow into America. Since October fewer than 800 Syrian refugees have...