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Turkey aims for one million refugees to return to Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Ankara was aiming to encourage one million Syrian refugees to return to their country by building them housing and local infrastructure there. Turkey is today home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees, who fled after a civil war...

Crowds in Syria await prisoners freed in amnesty

Damascus (AFP) – Families of prisoners held for years in Syrian jails gathered Wednesday, hoping their loved ones were among the "hundreds" the government said had been released in a mass amnesty. A crowd of hundreds waited in the centre of the capital Damascus, with dozens camping out...