GERMAN PEOPLE DONATED SO MUCH TO MIGRANTS THAT POLICE HAD TO ASK THEM TO STOP

This morning Polizei M nchen's official account tweeted that around 590 refugees were at the city's main train station adding Anyone who wants to help is welcome... READ MORE›

MUST-HAVE FOR MIGRANTS TO EUROPE THE SMARTPHONE

Syrians are helped along their journeys by Arabic-language Facebook groups like Smuggling Into the E.U., with 23,953 members, and How to Emigrate to Europe, with 39,304... READ MORE›

EXODUS OF SYRIANS HIGHLIGHTS POLITICAL FAILURE OF THE WEST

This week, World Food Program benefits were canceled for 229,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan... READ MORE›

A DEAD BABY BECOMES THE MOST TRAGIC SYMBOL OF THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE CRISIS

Aid agencies estimate that, in August, around 2,000 people attempted the tricky crossing to Greece's eastern islands every day... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CRISIS: EIGHT LIFE STORIES FROM BUDAPEST'S KELETI STATION

He is travelling with his brother Walid who operated a concrete-mixer truck in Idlib Walid's wife and two young children and several other friends and relatives... READ MORE›

'IT FEELS LIKE WE ARE IN PRISON'

Taxis and bakeries, water plants and market stalls, schools and charities all operated in rebel-held east Aleppo... READ MORE›

ISIS ACCELERATES DESTRUCTION OF ANTIQUITIES IN SYRIA

The wrecking of the Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra over the weekend was a new shock for Syrians and for experts and antiquities enthusiasts worldwide... READ MORE›

US REVAMPING REBEL FORCE FIGHTING ISIS IN SYRIA

Chris Connolly, a spokesman for the American military task force training the Syrian rebels, said in an email... READ MORE›

ISIS DESTROYS MORE ARTIFACTS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ

But Thursday was the first time that the Islamic State said it had destroyed Palmyra statues... READ MORE›

THREE SPANISH JOURNALISTS MISSING IN SYRIA, FEARED KIDNAPPED BY ISLAMIC STATE

Antonio Pampliega, JosA C Manuel LA?pez and A?ngel Sastre were last heard from on 12 July in Aleppo, says Spanish Federation of Journalists... READ MORE›

'MASSIVE REBEL ASSAULT' TO TAKE ALEPPO

Syrian rebels led by Islamist groups have begun a massive assault that aims to take full control of the northern city of Aleppo monitors report... READ MORE›

GOALS DIVERGE AND PERILS REMAIN AS US AND TURKEY TAKE ON ISIS

Militias that have lately been the United States' main partners in fighting the Islamic State in Syria, but whom Turkey considers enemies... READ MORE›

OFFERING SERVICES ISIS DIGS IN DEEPER IN SEIZED TERRITORIES

ERBIL Iraq In northern Syria the jihadists of the Islamic State have fixed power lines dug sewage systems and painted sidewalks... READ MORE›

MAP: THERE ARE 10 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. NINE ARE IN DANGER.

Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be an enormous loss to humanity... READ MORE›

IF WE DO NOTHING ABOUT SYRIA, THEN THE REFUGEES WILL KEEP ON COMING

A few years ago I went to Palmyra, and other places in Syria, and realised that it was a place of unbelievable cultural richness... READ MORE›

AYLAN KURDI: FRIENDS AND FAMILY FILL IN GAPS BEHIND HARROWING IMAGES

Kurdi family had escaped Damascas and headed to Aleppo before moving to Kobani when fighting broke out... READ MORE›

RIOT POLICE CLASH WITH REFUGEES IN LESBOS

Meawwhile a newborn boy was found dead after his migrant parents reached the shores of another Greek island in a boat from Turkey on Saturday... READ MORE›

I'M A SYRIAN AND I FIGHT ISIL EVERY DAY. IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN BOMBS FROM THE WEST TO DEFEAT THIS MENACE

Almost two years ago the House of Commons met to decide whether to take military action against Bashar al-Assad... READ MORE›

ISIL JIHADISTS 'OFFERED TEENAGER $25,000 TO CARRY OUT BOMBINGS IN VIENNA'

A 14-year-old boy suspected of planning a series of bombings in vienna reportedly offered 25 000 16 000 by islamic state of iraq and the levant to carry out attacks... READ MORE›

NEW HOPE IN SYRIA WAR, SAYS UN ENVOY

International business times uk syria bashar al-assad ready to freeze aleppo battle 23 hrs ago... READ MORE›

ISISS DESTRUCTION OF PALMYRA: THE HEART HAS BEEN RIPPED OUT OF THE CITY'

Isiss destruction of Palmyra The heart has been ripped out of the city'... READ MORE›

AYLAN AND GALIP KURDI: EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT DROWNED SYRIAN REFUGEE BOYS

Abdullah Kurdi has a sister called Teema in Vancouver, Canada, and it was there that the family hoped to settle... READ MORE›

NUSRA FRONT WITHDRAWS FROM FRONT LINE IN SYRIA

But on Monday a Defense Department official said the United States did not believe the statement... READ MORE›

'THIS IS OUR LAST HOPE': SIX SYRIANS ON THE HARDEST PART OF THEIR JOURNEY TO EUROPE

This is our last hope six syrians on the hardest part of their journey to europe... READ MORE›

THE MAN WITH THE TOUGHEST JOB IN THE WORLD

The following month, De Mistura went to Damascus to meet with the Syrian government, determined to push Assad once again regarding the use of barrel bombs... READ MORE›

HEAVY FIGHTING AS SYRIAN REBELS MOUNT OFFENSIVE IN ALEPPO

But Aleppo is a greater challenge for them The government and its allies, the Lebanese group Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite militias, are likely to fight harder... READ MORE›

IRAN BACKS BATTLE FOR SYRIA'S ALEPPO WITH PROXIES, GROUND TROOPS

Iraqi Shiite militias say they are joining troops from Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iranian and Syrian forces in a new push to recapture the major Syrian city... READ MORE›

Isis fighters inspect a hill on the outskirts of Syrian town of Kobani... READ MORE›

ISIS FUEL EMBARGOTHREATENS SYRIASMEDICAL CENTERS

International aid groups sounded the alarm on Thursday about Syrian government attacks on medical facilities in opposition-controlled areas... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE TAKES GROUND FROM SYRIAN KURDS AFTER AIR STRIKES

Ain Issa sits on a major east-west highway from Aleppo in the west to the Iraqi city of Mosul... READ MORE›