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In Macedonia, more teams of volunteers from the United Nations and government special police forces guide them onto buses or onto rundown electric trains or cramped taxis headed for the country’s northern border with Serbia.

Russian Federation has positioned about a half dozen tanks at an airfield at the centre of a military build-up in Syria, according to two United States officials.

“Richard Harrington will be responsible for coordinating and delivering work across government to resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees in the United Kingdom, along with coordinating the provision of government support to Syrian refugees in the region”, said a...

During today’s press conference, Abbott said the newly announced numbers will be a one-off increase over Australia’s 2015 humanitarian refugee intake of 13,750, and all the refugees will be granted permanent residency.

Al Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri has declared war against Islamic State, says a report in The Mirror.

Washington expressed concern over the Russian military build-up in Syria and put pressure on countries nearby to deny their air space to Russian flights to the country.

The Greek island of Lesbos is “on the verge of explosion” with violence erupting as the more than 15,000 mainly Syrian refugees push local resources to the limit, the immigration minister said Monday.

Let {us| me} turn the outpouring of public support for refugees into a strong and coordinated effort to tackle the problem at source, with Muslim nations central to any anti-IS coalition. Given that so many of Syria’s 20 million people have been driven from their homes, who...

Canada’s trade unions are committed to establishing a special fund with the Canadian Council for Refugees to help support the settlement of Syrian refugees in Canada. However, they have put significant financial strain on the many Edmonton families who privately sponsored...

Russian Federation has been a vital ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad throughout the war that has fractured Syria into a patchwork of areas controlled by rival armed groups, including Islamic State, leaving the government in control of much of the west. Lavrov will drop...

“Basically we are acting according to the rules”, Pangl said.

Numerous migrants enter the European Union through the Balkan Peninsula.

In addition to Syrians, others who have fled wars or were uprooted – such as Palestinians, Lebanese, Kuwaitis and Yemenis – have made their home in the region, as Emirati commentator Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi noted in The worldwide Business Times. But to the Syrians,...

A Palmyra resident, who goes by the name of Nasser al-Thaer, said IS militants set off a huge blast at 1:45 p.m. Sunday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is confident he has the continuing support of key allies Iran and Russian Federation.