As the evacuation of civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo continues, one 65-year-old refugee mother's only wish is to see her family re-united and together once again. Mother-of-seven Nofa Mitar is just one among the millions of Syrians who sought refuge in Turkey five years ago...

A Japanese program aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria promised Wednesday to remove language from documents which implied that pregnant women are not welcome to apply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in May that immigration-shy Japan, with a population of...

"Where are you, Oh Arabs, Oh Muslims, while we are being slaughtered?" An old man's cry, in a video posted online from Aleppo's ruins, poses an uncomfortable question for the mainly Sunni Muslim Arab states backing rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia....

(BBC)- As horrifying war reports are beamed out of Syria, a tiny radio station sends broadcasts in the other direction from Istanbul. Made up of Syrian exiles, the team gathers news from citizen journalists on the ground and has branched out into dramas and comedy shows. But they say the most...