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Refugees of the 2011–2012 Syrian uprising

9-year-old Ahmad in Beirut 2014

Giving Syrian children their identities back, one portrait at a time

Conflict

Photographer Rania Matar went back to her hometown of Beirut to work on a project about teenagers. Then, on every corner, she stumbled into young Syrian refugees. They became subjects of her new series called “Invisible Children.”

Syrian refugees

Syrians who once took in Iraqi refugees find the tables have turned

Conflict & Justice
A Syrian refugee sits on the street in Istanbul.

For some Syrian refugees in Turkey, begging is their only hope

Development & Education
Syrian refugees children

Syrian refugees move into Bulgaria, after losing hope of returning home

Conflict & Justice
Days before the sudden influx, monitors reported that people were arriving by bus and setting up makeshift camps on the Syrian side of the Peshkhabour border crossing. UNHCR / G.Gubaeva.

Harvard forum asks how the world can help Syrians caught in the war

Conflict & Justice
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Syrian Refugees Flood Jordan

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of Syrians registered as refugees or awaiting registration as refugees has now passed the 2 million mark.   Of the 2 million refugees, Lebanon hosts the most with some 720,000 refugees. The country with the next highest influx of refugees is Jordan, which […]

Former British Foreign Minister David Miliband Discusses Plight of Syrian Refugees

Global Politics

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with David Miliband, former British foreign minister and now head of the International Rescue Committee, which is helping Syrian refugees in several countries.

Influx of Syrian refugees causing fresh tension in Lebanon

Global Politics

Lebanon, like many of Syria’s neighbors, is groaning under the weight of refugees as that country’s civil war continues with no end in sight. In Lebanon, officials recently imposed a curfew on foreign laborers in an effort to restrict Syrian refugees.

Syrian war refugees not all equally welcome in Jordan

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled their war-torn country in hopes of safety in neighboring countries. But for Syrians of Palestinian descent, they find they’re not as welcome in neighboring Jordan as native Syrians.

Tensions rising in Turkey over Syrian refugees

Turkey is hosting tens of thousands of refugees, fleeing the months-long civil war in Syria. But as the conflict wears on, tensions between the Syrian people and their Turkish hosts are rising.

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