Al-Shamiya Front said its air defense battalion in the northern province of Aleppo has downed early Tuesday a Syrian army helicopter near al-Nayrab airport, the key rebel group said in statement. Abu Hassan ,rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that the helicopter was filled by food and basic...

Images of a father struggling to hold his baby above the waves and of drowned Syrians washed ashore have not deterred Racha Sattout from gambling her life to seek sanctuary in Germany after fleeing a Syria ripped apart by war. For her and thousands of others waiting to cram onto rubber...

The numbers of Syrian refugees in Iraq and Lebanon fell in August, while the number in Turkey has risen to almost 2 million and asylum applications in Europe have leapt, the U.N. refugee agency said. The Syrian refugee count in Turkey has jumped by more than 200,000 since June,...

 A leading U.S. Congressional opponent to allowing Syrian refugees into the United States said that Middle Eastern nations have "more room" to take in the huge wave of people fleeing their war-torn homeland. The United States faces significant security risks by agreeing to accept 10,000...