Air strikes near Damascus kill at least 80 people: activists
Syrian government strikes target marketplace, wound 200 more people
Volunteers fill aid void in Greek "crisis within a crisis"
Orthodox priest leads army of volunteers on the island of Lesbos to help boatloads of migrants fleeing war and poverty
Syria ceasefire ends, fighting resumes
The ceasefire had held since Wednesday in the town of Zabadani near the Lebanese border and in two villages in the northwestern province of Idlib
Migrants brawl on Greek island as refugee ship lies empty
Frustrated migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran scuffle outside police station in Kos; Syrians are being given priority treated as they're fleeing civil war
Greek mayor hands out aid as Kos sets up floating migrant centre
Kos has found itself on the front line of the crisis as new migrants arrive at the rate of hundreds a day
MSF accuses Syrian forces of targeting rebel-held hospitals
Strikes on hopsitals by Syrian warplanes in past week reportedly killed 11 people and wounded 31 others
Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State attacked them with chemical weapons
It is the third report of suspected chemical weapons use on the Iraqi battlefield this year
In Germany, grateful refugee names her child 'Angela Merkel'
Ghanaian refugee who has been granted asylum in Germany grateful for being allowed to stay in the country
Austrian treatment of refugees "scandalous" - Amnesty
Children offered no psychological care while women have had to use mixed showers
U.N. Security Council to meet on Islamic State gay attacks
Two men, one Iraqi and one Syrian, targeted by Islamic State for being gay to brief U.N. Security Council on their experience