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Australia could bomb Syria within days
Australian combat aircraft could conduct their first missions to bomb Islamic State forces inside a week.
Australian combat aircraft could conduct their first missions to bomb Islamic State forces inside a week.
It's often said that magic is the art of misdirection. In the debate on the Syrian refugee crisis, misdirection seems ubiquitous, writes Dr Zain Ali.
'Thank you in the name of all the refugees," is the first thing the Syrian father-of-three says to us at the Mangere refugee resettlement centre.
Why Winston Peters says it is "reasonable" to expect male refugees from Syria to return home and fight.
For millions of Syrians and other people displaced by conflict in their home countries, the Western Balkan Route can be a road towards refuge in Europe.
The Cabinet's response yesterday to the Syrian refugee crisis is no more than a token gesture.
Syrian refugees Lilas and Basal Slik have been sleeping soundly this year for the first time in their lives.
Immigration Minister confirms New Zealand will take a total of 750 Syrian refugees - 600 in an emergency intake over and above the usual annual quota of 750.
Europe, with its ageing population, needs to increase its younger population by several million to avoid a situation where pension systems grow unsustainable.
Russia is building a military base in Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's heartland and the US is worried.
Today the Herald restarts its campaign The Forgotten Millions to help refugees from the Syrian crisis.
The leaders of the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches will put on a united front, asking the Prime Minister to increase the number of refugees New Zealand lets in.
The pre-dawn move eased immediate pressure on Hungary, which has struggled to manage the flow of thousands of migrants arriving daily from non-EU member Serbia.
It wasn't long ago that Iceland went broke. When the Global Financial Crisis hit, the country became a beggar. It couldn't pay its debts. The rest of the world ridiculed it, Heather du Plessis-Allan writes.
This Prime Minister is completing the first year of his third term more popular than any at the same stage in our lifetime.
Prime Minister John Key has rejected claims this morning the government is opening the gates to extra Syrian refugees.
Half protest-march, half procession, the dismal crocodile of refugees left the Keleti station at 10am carrying what meagre possessions they could.
Syrian father Ahmad Barghach is desperate to bring his four children to join him in Auckland - but he's not finding it easy.
The clandestine programme represents a significant escalation of the CIA's involvement in the war in Syria, enlisting the agency's powerful Counterterrorism Centre.
As the death toll on land and sea continues to grow, the EU summoned ministers to an emergency summit to discuss solutions to the crisis.
New Zealand's annual refugee quota of 750 has not changed since 1987. We're falling shamefully short every year in how much we help refugees.
New footage is believed to show the British Isis killer nicknamed 'Jihadi John' unmasked for the first time in Syria.
The Middle East continues its slide into chaos with Turkish warplanes joining the fray in Syria, further embroiling Nato's eastern rampart in that country's civil war.
More than half the 57 million young children still not in classrooms today live in countries torn apart by conflict or natural disaster, writes Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Militants from Isis (Islamic State) are feared to have begun destruction of Syria's Roman city of Palmyra as the head of Unesco warned of "cultural cleansing" by the extremist group.
Isis jihadists have threatened "a calamity for kuffars" over the fasting month of Ramadan, and released a gruesome video of unorthodox execution methods.
Isis jihadists have planted mines around the ancient ruins in Syria's Palmyra, prompting fears for the Unesco World Heritage site.
The spending represents 13 per cent of global GDP and is roughly the combined value of the economies of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Spain and Brazil.
Jihadists from Isis are preparing a last stand in a key border post between Syria and Turkey, threatening to turn it into another Kobane.
The group's 23,000 followers on Twitter include diplomats, journalists and Pentagon officials. More than 39,000 people have "liked" its Facebook page.