She had already walked for 60 hours through the wet, dark forests of Poland, trying to make her way to Germany, when the 29-year-old Syrian Kurd twisted her knee. It wasn’t the first setback in Bushra’s journey. Earlier, her road companion and best friend had fainted in a panic...

A Syrian refugee who fled to safety in Wales has told how he feared for his life after paying people smugglers to help him slip through the Turkish border and into the UK on a fake passport. Ammar Alhalaki was 26 and had just finished an engineering degree in Damascus when the government...

TOKYO: Japan to provide grant aid worth 677 million yen (about US$6 million) to hospitals in Syria that have been damaged by the conflict. The aid will go into the “recovery and strengthening of lifesaving services by hospitals in areas severely damaged by the conflict,” the foreign...

Cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria remains vital, the United Nations Secretary-General said in an internal report Tuesday, as a UN authorization allowing aid into rebel-held areas in the country's northwest without approval from Damascus is set to expire.