Scores of civilians are fleeing Syria's Raqqa traumatized, with families torn apart and conditions worsening as the battle to oust Islamic State intensifies, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. The number of people escaping has risen rapidly in recent weeks, Sajjad Malik, the U.N....

( The New Arab )- An American man who played a key role in anti-capitalist "Occupy" protests was killed fight the Islamic State group outside the Syrian city of Raqqa last week. Robert Grodt - also known by his nom de guerre Demhat Goldman - volunteered as a medic with the Kurdish People's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- No Friends in Refuge Land tells the story of displacement from a place and land of fighting fronts to a place of safety through the journeys of three families that migrated from Damascus Suburbs to al-Quneitra province. The irony lies in the fact these same...

A convoy of refugees began leaving the Lebanese border region for Syria on Wednesday, a security source said, the second group to return under an agreement brokered by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah. The Lebanese army escorted around 250 people out of the border town of Arsal. The...