In a small classroom overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, young Syrian refugees learn mathematics on portable computers – their first steps towards formal education. A few months ago, most of them were ...

GENEVA/NEW YORK/AMMAN, 13 December 2013- The decline in education for Syrian children has been the sharpest and most rapid in the history of the region, according to a new paper published today.

Many are the sole breadwinners for families seeking to escape ISIS and terrorism — -- At 6 a.m., just three short miles from the Syrian border, Hadija, 10, is awakened. She gets dressed and ...

A newly-released United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report estimates that 4.3 million children are in need of aid inside Syria and that there are 1.2 million child refugees. Fifty-six percent of ...

The camp's Makani centers provide psychosocial support to refugee children. — -- Drawings of families holding hands under lopsided suns adorn the walls of an informal learning center in Jordan’s ...

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager turned education activist, is teaming up with former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a $500 million initiative to provide education for 300,000 Syrian ...

Outside one of the registration centers run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beirut, dozens of Syrian families stand in silent lines. No one here speaks of a “dream” ...

Among the ruins of one of Syria’s largest refugee camps, life cautiously returns as families face cold, debris, and the ...

A new report issued by the U.N.’s refugee agency on Friday has detailed the impact of war on the more than 1 million Syrian children who have fled the bloodshed and the challenges they face trying to ...