Turkey opened fire on a migrant ship carrying over 300 men, women and children fleeing Syria, coast guard officials have confirmed. Officials detained 337 Syrian refugees who were discovered on a 59 metre-long cargo ship off Turkey's western coast. Eighty-five of the refugees on board...

As Syria's civil war enters its fifth year, 14 million children are suffering from the escalating violence sweeping  Syria  and much of Iraq, according to the UN's children's agency.   "I miss Aleppo so much, but what I miss most is the food in Aleppo," Hanaa...

 Local groups outside the formal aid sector, many formed "around the kitchen table", are helping to fill gaps in the humanitarian response in  Syria , reaching communities big agencies cannot access, a leading think tank said on Friday. Small charities, activists and diaspora...

Around 1,500 Syrian Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children, returned from Turkey to northern Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobani, on Wednesday. The refugees crossed the border from Mursitpinar border gate, located in the southern Turkish district of Suruc,...