Aleppo's scattered business owners have yet to return home
Some refugees have started returning, but most are unwilling to go back yet, citing a fear of reprisals, the danger of renewed conflict, economic hardship and problems with paperwork
Belgium takes back six Islamic State children
Western countries have so far been unwilling to take back their citizens who went to Syria to join Islamic State - seeing them as a security risk if they return home
Belgium takes back six orphaned Islamic State children-SDF
Western countries have so far been unwilling to take back their citizens who went to Syria to join IS - seeing them as a security risk if they return home
Albania busts gang trafficking migrants into EU, arrests 8
The gang spirited the migrants from the mountainous region along the southern border with Greece across Albania and into Montenegro to the north
After refuge in northwest Syria, a family again faces danger
Many Syrians fled to the rebel-held northwest when the army captured their home areas but are now under attack again
Syria refuses access to chemical weapons investigators - watchdog
A joint UN-OPCW investigation team concluded that Syrian forces used banned nerve agent sarin and chlorine barrel bombs, while militants with IS had used mustard gas
INTERVIEW-Nobel Prize winner warns wildfires threaten Iraqi mass graves
Yazidi activist Nadia Murad fears that wildfires raging in northern Iraq could destroy evidence of genocide committed by Islamic State
Mental illness affects a fifth of people living in war zones
The numbers are significantly higher than in peacetime populations, where around one in 14 people has a mental illness
Seven drown after migrant boat overturns off Greek island of Lesbos
Nearly 10,700 refugees and migrants have reached Greece so far this year by sea, and 39 people have lost their lives while attempting the journey
French, Dutch Islamic State orphans repatriated from Syria
The 12 French children will be handed to social services