At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

I became a refugee, a label that carries both immense hardship and profound strength. My story, I know, is not unique. It echoes the experiences of millions of Syrian women, internally and externally ...

Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini, actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph, and photojournalist Lynsey Addario ...

Study finds genetic imprints in three generations of Syrian refugees. Researchers urge caution in interpreting findings and ...

Some of the worst violence in years drives members of a minority sect linked to fallen Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to flee ...

Yet other refugees viewed the violence as an attempt at ethnic cleansing by Syria’s new rulers. “Why is this happening to us? It’s because we are Alawites,” said a 24-year-old woman from ...

Syria faced severe violence, with security forces accused of mass killings in Alawite-majority areas. Over 1,000 civilians ...

nutrition and women’s protection services. Working at an IRC mental health clinic, Samia runs crucial counselling sessions for displaced people and their families in a refugee camp in north-eastern ...

We report on the fears of Syrian women that their new-found freedoms may be under threat with the rise of religious observance. Annette Young also talks to Mariam Jalabi, a co-founder of the ...

Loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad recently clashed with Syrian ... a woman in her 50s staying with her sons at the school, repeating a common view among the refugees here.