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...

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...

     Syria’s key opposition group formed an emergency committee to handle the urgent needs of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon, according to Zaman Alwasl source. National Coalition discison comes in response to the deteriorating situation in Qalamoun and...

The United States will destroy the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world's chemical watchdog said on Saturday.   "The neutralisation operations will be conducted on a US vessel at sea using hydrolysis," the Organisation...