A war refugee, a closed asylum door and a legal shortcut were put to the test at the EU's Court of Justice, which spelled out ...

Next week, the U.S. Treasury is expected to announce the first tranche of sanctions associated with the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, the most expansive legislation yet in an already stifling ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

AMMAN, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday blamed U.S. sanctions and pressure on Syria's neighbours for the reticence of more than 5 million refugees who fled the conflict ...

ANKARA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - At least four people were killed in a Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Thursday when a car bomb detonated at a checkpoint in the border town of Ras Al Ain, ...

In Syria, people are assessing something unusual - the lack of airstrikes. There are none - not on schools or on hospitals or anywhere. The Syrian government, with Russian help, had been pounding the ...

DAMASCUS—The family of Abdu Kharouf, a moderate Muslim preacher in a dirt-poor section of Damascus, had been haunted for half a decade by questions of how exactly he ended up in a prison run by ...

Abdullah, an Iraqi refugee living in Syria. “One of Abdullah’s main concerns when he fled to Syria was the education of his children. “One of the problems we faced was registering our children at ...