A NZ refugee with 24 children who was killed in Iraq has been accused of disrespecting his adopted country by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

One of the schoolgirls who disappeared from her east London home in February to travel to Syria has tweeted a picture that appears to confirm she has joined Isis.

A young Isis doctor identified as Tareq Kamleh has been revealed to be an Australian doctor who trained in Adelaide.

Actress attacks UN paralysis on Syrian refugees. The Syrian ambassador's response? "She's beautiful."

A Kiwi jihadist who claims to be fighting in Syria with the Islamic State has called for terror attacks in New Zealand.

Up to 25 New Zealanders want to travel to the Middle East to fight against Isis, local Iraqi and Kurdish leaders say.

A former New Zealander now living in Denmark says her son was killed when he travelled to Syria to fight with Isis after authorities failed to stop him.

The Syrian Government has been accused of again using chemical weapons against civilians as fighting intensifies with fresh rebel attacks in the north of the country.

Campaign to raise money for the forgotten victims of the Syrian crisis raises four times what was hoped for.

A few years ago Damascus was a place of calm in a violent region.

Previous experience has been positive and benefits would outweigh the costs.

It is an image that challenges me emotionally every time I look at it, and the more I look, the more it challenges me.

Ralph Baydoun is a 23-year-old Lebanese videographer based in World Vision's Beirut office and last month we travelled together to some of the more challenging areas of the Middle East - the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and the Lebanon-Syrian border.

"As I write to you, I feel so much sadness because you stayed behind in Syria on your own. You are far away and the war in Syria has grown distance between us."

Sometimes Fatma's granddaughters want to talk about their old life in Syria. They lived in a nice house in Aleppo and went to school every day.

I first met Reverend Harold Good eight years ago in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Spare a thought for our Prime Minister. The price of "club" membership is to take New Zealand into a war not of our making, training troops who were once our enemy.

Nareen and her daughter almost died after jihadists trapped Yazidi refugees.

The school bus lurches to a halt outside a Bekaa Valley primary school in the east of Lebanon.

Canada's mysterious and small operation has become a lot bigger and more costly since it began, writes Dita De Boni. Which could be our fate, too.

The Syrian conflict is one of several emergencies World Vision is responding to.

An auction of Kiwi artists' work has raised $22,000 for a project that uses art to help Syrian kids cope with the trauma of civil war.

The Independent investigates how Isis jihadis govern every aspect of life within the territories they control.

There was no dignity in childbirth for Sabrine. She lay on a bed, exhausted, lurching in and out of consciousness.

'The scenes terrified me': Meet the former jihadi who deserted Isis rather than take part in executions, beheadings and rape.

The memories and the sound of war can never be forgotten but help when working with refugees, writes Rachel Smalley.

Many Syrians in refugee camps across the border in Lebanon were lawyers, teachers, dentists, accountants. As the conflict enters its fifth year they have become the forgotten millions.

Mustafa was standing outside his home in Aleppo when the jet flew over. He has no memory of what happened next but he regained consciousness many days later.

Mustafa was standing outside his home in Aleppo when the jet flew over. He has no memory of what happened next but he regained consciousness many days later in Turkey.