The number of refugees and migrants arriving by land and sea in the European Union has passed 1 million this year, while a further 3,600 died or went missing, the U.N. refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. Half of those arriving were Syrians fleeing...

The United Nations is mulling "light touch" options for monitoring a possible ceasefire in Syria that would keep its risks to a minimum by relying largely on Syrians already on the ground, diplomatic sources said. The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously called on...

(The Financial Times)- ISIS may be claiming to wage a holy war for Islam but the self-declared caliphate is as vulnerable to the region's deep-seated corruption as the secular Iraqi and Syrian regimes it displaced. Evidence from its former...

Reporting by Samir al-Taweel; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- The representative of the Syrian community in Egypt said in a statement to Eqtsad that about 8 to 9 thousands of Syrian children had dropped out of school, especially basic education stage. "The Syrian...