Dima* and her son Salim* at a Save the Children health center in northern Syria. Photo by Ahmad Baroudi. Salim’s Story: Fighting to Survive the Winter in a Refugee Camp In the midst of a bitter winter ...

Saliva samples were taken from 1,507 Syrian refugee children, aged six to 19 and living in informal settlements in Lebanon. Their DNA methylation (DNAm), which can turn genes on or off without ...

Children had been plucked off the streets ... though his family’s journey was in some ways smoother than the average Syrian refugee experience. It began with a 90-minute hike to meet a smuggler ...

By contrast, in the Middle East and North Africa, birth registration, primarly of Syrian refugee children has progressively improved since the onset of the crisis. 2 To fill these gaps, missing data ...

Lebanon, a country of only 6.8 million people, is host to 1.5 million Syrian refugees, including 488,000 children. The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) in Lebanon has made the ...

This is the story of a young girl leaving Syria as a refugee, to live with family in Cincinnati ... "Alan Gratz weaves together the stories of children who need to leave their homes across the globe ...

All too often, the thousands of unaccompanied children arriving in foreign lands without parents or caregivers find themselves trapped in their status as migrants, with officials giving little ...

Five Syrian siblings died from suffocation and three paramedics were injured on Thursday in a fire that broke out in the Al-Mina area of Tripoli, Lebanon, according to Civil Defense sources.

When the brutal war erupted in Syria in 2011, 1,5 million people fled to neighboring Lebanon, 470,000 of which were children aged between 3 and 17. About 155,000 Syrian refugee children were enrolled ...

Of the study’s participants, 22 mothers and their 20 children witnessed a second period of violence, after the Syrian uprising in 2011. This was when then-president Bashar al-Assad, who fled the ...