Syria urges people at camp in US-protected area to return home
Some 40,000 people are living in dire conditions at the Rukban camp, located in a U.S.-protected area of Syria near a Pentagon-run base at Tanf
Russia tells Syrian asylum seekers: You need to go home
According to the U.N. refugee agency, nearly 5.5 million Syrians have fled a war that has raged over seven years
Islamic State supporters and victims flee the ruins of its 'caliphate'
Women from Iraq, Syria, Russia, Azerbaijan and Poland, an Indonesian boy and enslaved, traumatised Yazidi girls were among those to emerge over the past 48 hours
Bangladesh risks sanctions over failure to jail traffickers - official
For two years, Bangladesh has been placed on the U.S. State Department's Tier 2 Watch List in its annual global Trafficking in Persons report, one step above the worst offenders
Some 40,000 civilians have left last IS bastion
The figure comprises people displaced from Hajin and adjacent Baghouz, which they have completely surrounded
Anger and apprehension haunt ruined Sinjar, years after Islamic State ousted
Overrun by Islamic State in 2014 and liberated by an array of forces the following year, little has been rebuilt and only a fraction of the population has returned
Tunnels, civilians slow capture of Islamic State's last Syria pocket
Despite the loss of its territory in Iraq and Syria, however, local and Western officials warn the group will still pose a threat there, going underground and using guerrilla tactics
Syria Kurds evacuate civilians from IS redoubt, hail Trump troop reversal
The planned assault on the final IS redoubt in the area, Baghouz, would effectively end the territorial rule of the jihadist group
Truckloads of civilians leave Islamic State enclave in Syria
Reporters near the front line at Baghouz saw dozens of trucks driving out with civilians inside them, but it was not clear if more remained in the tiny pocket
U.S.-backed SDF to try to evacuate civilians from IS enclave
Baghouz is all that remains for Islamic State in the Euphrates valley region that became its final populated stronghold in Iraq and Syria after it lost its major cities of Mosul and Raqqa in 2017