Munzir and Mustafa, a Syrian father and son, both missing limbs due to the war in their home country and featured in a now-well-known photo entitled 'Hardship of Life', are starting a new life in Italy, where they arrived Friday with their family.
In December, the Home Office sent a rejection letter to a Syrian asylum seeker, saying it was safe for him to return. That would have been first case of its kind in the UK. Now, authorities appear to have backtracked.
A German court has found a Syrian former army colonel guilty of crimes against humanity, handing him a life sentence. The trial is the first to take place anywhere examining state-sponsored torture in Syrian Civil War.
The international community has not done enough to support Lebanon, says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The country has been suffering a dire economic crisis while trying to accommodate more than one million Syrian refugees.
Northeastern Syria is experiencing its worst drought in nearly 70 years, with rising temperatures and erratic weather exacerbated by tensions with Turkey.
The war in Syria is still raging, making the country too unsafe for refugees to return, according to UN expert Paulo Pinheiro. He also warned that the winter cold and the coronavirus pose a dire thread to many Syrians.
A five-year-old Syrian boy who was born without limbs is portrayed smiling at his father, who has lost a leg, in a photo that is a symbol of the tragic conflict in Syria. The picture of the refugee father and son, shot by Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan, has won the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) 2021.
A manhunt is underway after two migrants were found dead in a van at the Austro-Hungarian border. According to press reports, the van is thought to have contained "almost 30 migrants."
A 54-year-old Syrian man in Berlin is accused of firing a grenade in Damascus in 2014, killing at least seven people. German prosecutors have pursued several war crimes cases.
On Thursday, July 9, the European Court of Human Rights judged that Poland had pushed back three Syrian nationals illegally to Belarus. Their case has been before the court since 2017. Poland has been ordered to pay each of the three €10,000 compensation.
A Syrian family of seven has been reunited in Greece after several years torn apart by war. The news agency Associated Press went to meet them in Thessaloniki and published their story.
The first European country to revoke asylum for Syrians, Denmark is pushing ahead with plans to reach its zero-asylum-seekers target. And Syrian women are bearing the brunt of the policy.