After a brief respite aboard a Greek passenger ship, Syrian refugee Mohamed has found himself stranded on a filthy, chaotic strip at the Macedonian border, his way to the relative security of northern Europe blocked by razor wire and riot police. The 20-year-old geology student,...

At least 52 people have been killed in stricken Douma on Saturday as the Syrian regime fierce aerial campaign extends on the rebel-held town northeast of Damascus, 6 days since a massacre committed against 117 civilians and branded as war crime by UN officials. Rescue workers said 20...

Islamist rebels have killed 20 Syrian army soldiers and Hezbollah militants in the western neighborhood of Zabadani town northwest of the capital Damascus, activists said on Saturday. Fighters of the dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement and the al-Qaeda branch Nusra Front, who launched attacks on...

Crowds of migrants and refugees were building on Greece's border with Macedonia on Saturday after a cold, wet night spent in the open, their entry slowly rationed by Macedonian police and soldiers. Most of them Syrian refugees, the crowd of several thousand shouted "Help us!" at...