01/01/2018

Characters from the children's television programme Sesame Street are going to be used to help teach children displaced by war in Syria. The Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee have won a $100m (£75m) grant to help with…

The Syria crisis has been going on for seven years. 5.3 million people are displaced beyond Syria’s borders. Another seven million internally displaced people (IDPs) are displaced . There is unprecedented destruction - over 500,000 people…

Study finds interpreters working with the Syrian refugee resettlement programme in Scotland need ‘priority’ support due to stress and depression A Syrian refugee family arrives at their new home in Scotland.…

Study finds interpreters working with the Syrian refugee resettlement programme in Scotland need ‘priority’ support due to stress and depression A Syrian refugee family arrives at their new home in Scotland.…

As the world celebrates Christmas, Germans are also remembering the dead from last year’s attack on a Berlin Christmas market by a migrant who had been denied asylum. That incident fanned the flames of public sentiment against…

Syrian refugee Mohammed surveys the fields of bright red strawberries visible beneath their protective plastic tunnels, which offer the promise of work, but soon they will all be gone. Since fleeing war in Syria three years ago, the…

Syrian President Bashar Assad reshuffled his government on New Year's Day Army commander General Ali Ayoub has now been named defense minister  Imad Sarah has been named information minister while Mohammed Mazen Youssef was chosen as…

Syrian President Bashar Assad reshuffled his government on New Year's Day Army commander General Ali Ayoub has now been named defense minister  Imad Sarah has been named information minister while Mohammed Mazen Youssef was chosen as…

At least four people were killed and 30 injured in shootings by revelers celebrating the New Year in several regime-held areas of war-ravaged Syria, medical sources said on Monday. The dead included two in the central province of Hama,…

President Bashar Assad reshuffled his government Monday replacing the ministers of defense, information and industry, Syria's state news agency SANA reported. SANA did not give a reason for the government reshuffle that comes at a time…