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U.N. Says Syria Represents Worst Refugee Crisis In 25 Years

5:24pm July 09, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The high commissioner for refugees estimates that more than 4 million have fled since the start of the civil war four years ago. An additional 7.6 million are believed to be displaced inside Syria.

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ISIS Supporter Moved To Jail After Box Cutter Found In His Halfway House Room

6:58pm July 07, 2015

by Dina Temple-Raston

Abdullahi Yusuf, 19, had pleaded guilty to charges he tried to leave Minnesota and aid the self-proclaimed Islamic State. He says through his lawyer that the box cutter is not his.

Cardboard Google goggles whisk viewers into a virtual reality world.

You Haven't Left The Building But Your Brain's On A Virtual Reality Trip

7:03am July 05, 2015

by Linda Poon

You can now experience the aftermath of Nepal's earthquake or get a sense of what it's like to be in a refugee camp without leaving home. Will that make you more likely to donate to a cause?

Smoke rises after a reported barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday.

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Syrian Forces Try To Halt Rebel Offensive On Aleppo

10:07am July 03, 2015

by Scott Neuman

An alliance of forces led by the al-Qaida affiliated al-Nusra Front is battling the Syrian government for control of the key northern city.

Temple, left, and Ingrasci, far right, get to know a few of the 81,000 Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp.

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Meet Your New Neighbors, The American Filmmakers

4:34pm June 30, 2015

by Sam Seifman

They're two guys in their 20s. And they live with the people they're covering. You can judge the results in their latest documentary, set in a Syrian refugee camp.

Syrian Kurds from Kobani wait behind the border fences to cross into Turkey on Friday. An attack by Islamic State fighters on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village has so far killed at least 146 civilians, the second-biggest massacre by the hardl

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Report: ISIS Goes Door-To-Door Killing Scores Of Civilians In Kobani

5:21pm June 26, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calls it a massacre and the worst such incident carried out by ISIS fighters since last year.

Civilians, reportedly wounded by fighting in Kobani, wait with their relatives to cross into Turkey at the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Tel Abyad, Syria, on Thursday.

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ISIS Launches Push To Retake Border Town Of Kobani

1:16pm June 25, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The battle began with one or more car bombs set off inside the Syrian city. There are unconfirmed reports that Islamic State fighters hid themselves among refugees flooding into Kobani.

Mohammad and Linda Jomaa al-Halabi, along with their five daughters, are among the fewer than 1,000 Syrian refugees who have been resettled in the U.S. They left Syria in August 2012 and arrived last year in Baltimore, where they live now.

Of 4 Million Syrian Refugees, The U.S. Has Taken Fewer Than 1,000

8:06pm June 16, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

The U.S has sent humanitarian aid to help Syrian civilians, but only a small number of refugees have been allowed into America. Now the U.S. says it will increase the number of those admitted.

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Mourners attend the May 14 funeral of Hezbollah fighter Ahmad al-Amin in Babliyeh, Lebanon. Hezbollah is fighting alongside the Syrian army and Amin was killed while fighting in Syria's Qalamoun mountains against Nusra Front, al-Qaida's branch in Syria. T

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With Syria's Army Losing Ground, A Boost From Hezbollah

10:43am May 26, 2015

by Alice Fordham

President Bashar Assad has suffered a series of recent military setbacks. But Hezbollah keeps fighting in alliance with Syria's army, and it scored a recent victory along the border with Lebanon.

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In this photo released Thursday by a website run by Islamic State militants, damaged Syrian helicopters sit at Palmyra air base, which was captured by ISIS after a battle with the Syrian government forces earlier this week.

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Islamic State Reportedly Seizes Last Syria-Iraq Border Crossing

2:02pm May 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The checkpoint at al-Tanf, known as al-Waleed in Iraq, has been seized, according to a British-based monitoring group that says ISIS fighters now control half of Syria.