Hundreds of Syrian refugees have been rescued in rough seas and brought to Italy's southern coast in the last 3 days, the Italian coastguard said on Saturday. Three boats carrying 809 refugees and possibly some migrants, including many women and children, were intercepted off the...

  More than 2,100 Syrian officers have fled to Jordan since the start of the conflict in their country in 2011, the kingdom's interior minister said in remarks published on Sunday.   "Jordan is hosting around 2,130 Syrian officers of different...

Iraqi Kurdistan has asked oil companies operating in the autonomous region for $50 million to help deal with an influx of refugees from  Syria  that has put a strain on its resources. Around 200,000 refugees, many of them from Syria's own Kurdish minority, have poured into the...

  A ban on chemical weapons isn't enough; the international community should also demand that the Syrian regime end its use of air power over populated areas, an opposition group said Sunday. "The Syrian National Coalition insists that the ban of use of chemical weapons,...