'Brink of the abyss': UN makes appeal to prevent famine for 34 million
The world has seen a 20 per cent rise in people suffering from "acute hunger" in one year.
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The innocent victims of Syria's 10-year war
About 12,000 Syrian children killed or wounded and half the population displaced.
'Kiwi' Isis terrorist became NZ's problem because of a dubious Australian law
ANALYSIS: Suhayra Aden lost her Aussie citizenship automatically under now-repealed law.
'We will come and take her': NZ likely to accept alleged 'Kiwi' Isis terrorist
Suhayra Aden and her children are being held in a deportation centre in Turkey.
Editorial: There are no easy answers in the Middle East
EDITORIAL: The most significant foreign moves Biden has made have been in the region.
How the US airstrike in Syria was about Iran
Syria is again serving as a proxy battlefield for world powers.
US launches airstrikes in Syria, multiple deaths reported
The strikes were retaliation for an attack in Iraq, the Pentagon said.
Isil Kiwi wants to come home - to Australia
Isil 'terrorist' shook with fear as she told journalist how she wants to come home.
The 'Kiwi' Isis terrorist: How she was radicalised in Australia
Inside story of Suhayra Aden's life in a Syrian refugee camp, and her bid for freedom.
NZ-Aus woman arrested at Syria-Turkey border named
The woman has been known to New Zealand and Australian authorities 'for some time'.
NZ woman Isis 'terrorist', two children captured at Syria border
An NZ woman has been captured overseas after being identified as a wanted terrorist.
A riveting Isis story, told in a New York Times podcast, falls apart
New York Times: The central figure in the Caliphate podcast was a fabulist who spun tales.
Former refugees help build seawall on Otago Peninsula
Mohamad Alashour moved to New Zealand from Lebanon with his family as a refugee in 2017.
Isis bride Shamima Begum asks UK court to let her return home
New York Times: Shamima Begum travelled to Syria as a teen and remains in detention there.
Islamic State still long-term threat - US general
The general says IS will only be completely defeated when refugees can return home.
Kiwi woman suspected of Islamic State terrorism plan fights to get her passport back
The woman had her passport cancelled because of fears she was a terrorist threat.
'Dogs from hell': Teen's chilling act after teacher decapitated
18-year-old refugee who beheaded teacher committed another outrage after the killing.
Canada arrest casts shadow on star reporter, and The New York Times
New York Times: A top editor is now reviewing reporter and her popular podcast Caliphate.
Islamic State 'Beatles' charged in US over hostage deaths
El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey will not face death penalty over hostage killings.
Al Hol: The camp holding Islamic State's female fanatics
UK twins Salma and Zahra Halane left to join Isis as 16-year-olds in 2014.
'She was very scared': ISIS 'Beatles' shock admission over slain aid worker
The denied meeting Kayla Mueller, who was raped and murdered. Then their story changed.
For children fleeing war, a tent becomes a school
New York Times: Syrian children cannot remember a normal life.
Children freeze to death as attack prompts largest exodus of Syrian war
New York Times: One of the worst humanitarian emergencies of a brutal nine-year war.
At Turkish border with Syria: 'It's like the end of the world'
New York Times: Human calamity unfolding as 900,000 people flee an assault.
Passenger jet carrying 172 nearly shot down over Syria
Russia claims the Israeli air force used the plane as a shield from Syrian air defences.
These Syrian women rarely left the house. Then the men disappeared
New York Times: They were rarely visible before the war. Now they shape the bitter peace.
Rockets fired after day of mourning for slain Iranian leader
Iraqi forces warned to stay kilometre away from US bases in thinly veiled threat.
Iran vows to revenge 'aggression of evil American ravens'
The US attack is the largest yet targeting Iraqi state-sanctioned militia.
Spy bosses: 'Small number' of male and female Kiwi jihadis offshore
Spy bosses say "small number" of male and female Kiwi jihadis remain offshore
Russian travel agencies sell 'adventure' tours of Aleppo
Tour operators are selling tours to the landmine riddled streets of Aleppo.
Diary of a war correspondent: I've lost count of the people I've seen killed
Times: The end of the caliphate, Shamima Begum and the fate of Isis prisoners.
Israel Strikes Iranian Targets in Syria; 11 Reported Killed
The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria.
Briton who helped found Syria's White Helmets dies in Turkey
Russia last week accused Le Mesurier of being a former British agent.
Inside Syria's ISIS prisons: Broken men, child inmates
More than 10,000 men and children are still crammed into at least 25 makeshift prisons.