Turkey on Sunday began accepting onto its territory Syrian refugees fleeing the battle between Kurds and Islamic State (IS) jihadists for the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad, an AFP photographer said. Dozens of Syrian refugees, many carrying sacks of possessions, started passing through the...

By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Fatima Kotaish, a Syria girl, refugee in Ramtha city in Jordan, suffers of severe burns in her head for two and a half year. Fatima was burned with hot oil, when she entered quickly to her family’s tent in Zatari, and she hit the pot of boiling...

Macedonian police have detained 128 illegal migrants from Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries sheltering in five houses in a village near the border with Serbia, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Villagers had rented their houses to the migrants for 1,500 euros ($1,685) a...

Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday to flee a battle pitting Islamist insurgents against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad. A Reuters photographer at the scene said many of them were women and children and they had entered Turkey...