The father of Alan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian toddler whose drowning last year swung European public opinion on the refugee crisis, was tried in absentia by a Turkish court on Thursday along with ...

Tima Kurdi awoke on Sept. 2 at home in Vancouver to dozens of missed calls on her phone from relatives in Syria. The news was grim: Her brother Abdullah’s wife and two children had drowned crossing ...

The photographer who took the heart-breaking picture of Aylan Kurdi that shocked the world said it was her duty to make his story heard. Nilufer Demir, 29, was on the beach near Bodrum, Turkey, on ...

The police officer who found the body of Aylan Kurdi has spoken about the tragedy for the first time. Mehmet Ciplak was pictured carrying the lifeless three-year-old from the beach in Bodrum in an ...

Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, has published a cartoon on Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish shore when he drowned on the journey to Greece, drawing global ...

Warning: This post contains distressing imagery. One year after the devastating image of a lifeless three-year-old Syrian boy focussed international attention onto the refugee crisis, his father says ...

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A week ago, Abdullah Kurdi was dreaming of a new life in the comparative safety of Europe with his wife and two sons. Just days later he was back in Syria, in his hometown of Kobane, burying his ...

"All I want to do is sit next to the grave of my wife and children," he said. — -- The Syrian father whose two young sons died after falling off an overcrowded boat headed to Turkey was captured ...

Tima Kurdi, third from left, stands with her brother Mohammad Kurdi, top right, upon arrival at the Vancouver airport. Pictured from left to right are Shergo Kurdi, 15, Haveen Kurdi, 16, Sherwan Kurdi ...

Not far from where a sobbing Abdullah al-Kurdi described the moment his two children “slipped away” into the inky blackness of the Aegean Sea, plans were being hatched. Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip, ...

Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, received on Monday, at the Ruler’s ...