Pope calls for all parties to safeguard Syrian civilians in Idlib
Major offensive in the Idlib area, where displaced people already make up half the population, risks forcing another 700,000 Syrians from their homes
Palestinian refugees angry and dismayed at U.S. for halting funds to U.N. agency
UNRWA provides services to about 5 million Palestinian refugees across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank and Gaza
Bosnian police intercept 50 migrants on cargo train
Still recovering from a devastating war in the 1990s, Bosnia was bypassed in 2015 and 2016 when more than a million migrants and refugees passed through the Balkans
U.S. halts funding to U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the decision as "a flagrant assault against the Palestinian people"
Syrian director seeks to show 'human' face of war in Venice film
The director drew on her own experience as a young women at the outbreak of the war
One million Syrian children in Idlib at risk if assault mounted - UNICEF
Many families in Idlib have been uprooted multiple times, evacuated as front lines shift
TIMELINE-Syria's years of blood
The first protests against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 quickly spread across the country, and were met by security forces with a wave of arrests and shootings
Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece -lawyer
Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling
Situation at "boiling point" at Greek refugee centre, UN says
More than 7,000 asylum-seekers and migrants - a quarter of them children - are crammed into shelters at the island's Moria reception centre, built for 2,000
Situation at 'boiling point' at refugee centre on Greek island -UN
Lesbos was the preferred entry point into the European Union in 2015 for nearly a million Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis