Syrian refugees

It hasn’t been easy, and Syrian newcomers are forced to overcome serious language and employment barriers, but early fears about how thousands of new families would cope were misplaced.

The Barhos dreamed of a family with lots of children and joy. When civil war broke out in Syria, they fled for the safety of Canada. They loved their new lives in Nova Scotia—until unspeakable tragedy struck.

Sympathies are pouring in to stricken mother Kawthar Barho after tragic Halifax fire: ‘It would be hard enough to lose one child. To lose your whole family, seven children—I don’t know what she’s going to do’

Father Ebraheim Barho was badly burned while trying to rescue his kids and is fighting for his life

The Syria that emerges from seven years of conflict will look nothing like the country it was before. For the foreseeable future, Syria will remain a broken shell of a nation.

It started with a frantic call to Canada’s ambassador to Jordan, writes Terry Glavin. How the escape unfolded—and the wrenching truth about those left behind

Laurie Cooper is a den mother of sorts to more than a dozen Syrian and Afghan refugees

I’m a Syrian refugee who escaped to safety in Germany. I know I’m lucky. But the horrors in my homeland find themselves in my life, all the same

Pregnant when they arrived in Canada, they describe their experiences of giving birth, settling in and the parenting customs of their new home

Norwegian filmmaker Egil Håskjold Larsen on ’69 Minutes Of 86 Days’, a refugee documentary focussed on humanity, not horror

How Ottawa’s Carson Grove Elementary embraced scores of new students­—all of them refugee children from Syria

John Geddes on the two key statements made by the leaders today as they addressed Syrian refugees and ‘tweaking’ NAFTA