KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For the past four years, since she was 14, the notebook was always within her reach. Shukria Ahmadi titled it “Beautiful Sentences” and put everything in it. Poetry that she liked — sometimes a single line, sometimes long verses. Her drawings, like one of a...

Aid agencies are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing lifesaving aid delivered cross-border to reach Syria. The resolution is set to expire in exactly a month’s time on July 10th. NGOs are warning that a failure to renew...

Copenhagen, Denmark – Rihab Kassem, a retired nurse and grandmother of Syrian and Palestinian origin, arrived in Denmark more than eight years ago. She had been living in Yarmouk, an unofficial camp in Damascus for the Palestinian refugee community in Syria. Her initial...

The Danish authorities rejected an appeal by the Syrian couple Omar al-Natour and his wife Asma against a deportation decision after six years of starting a new life in Denmark.   The Danish authorities told the couple that they had 30 days to leave for Syria or they would be...