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Top official: Kurds seek autonomy in a federal Syria

  Syria’s Democratic Union Party, the country’s most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief, Salih Muslim, told AFP in an interview.   Speaking during a visit to France, he confirmed that...

Winter looms for Syrian refugees in Iraq

Winter is fast approaching in Iraq’s Kurdistan and as heavy rain threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation for the region’s 235,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees, local organizations are fighting a battle against time in an attempt to soften the cold blow of winter. November...

UNHCR says at least half of Syrian refugees are children

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees visited a new refugee camp in Lebanon on Friday and said "massive support" was needed for Lebanon and the Syrian refugees who are fleeing there.   Antonio Guterres toured the camp in Arsal village in northeast Lebanon, meeting some of the...

Out of Syria, Into a European Maze

SYRACUSE, Sicily — Fifty miles off the southeastern coast of Sicily, the refugee boat first appeared as a gray spot on the horizon, rising up or dipping away with the churn of the Mediterranean. Then, as an Italian Coast Guard rescue ship drew closer, the small boat came fully into...