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As the civil war continues, a new study says Syria's health care system is near collapse. Outbreaks of disease are on the rise in the country, and refugees sheltered beyond the border are also at great risk.

Jill Biden's trip to the Slovakia-Ukraine border will be her most high-profile moment yet as first lady. On Mother's Day she meets with Ukrainian mothers and children who fled after Russia's invasion.

An exhibit in New York explores a little-known chapter of World War II.

Since the crisis in Darfur erupted three years ago, Sudanese refugees have poured across the border seeking shelter in neighboring Chad. Now, the conflict has followed them, with more attacks by Arab Janjaweed militiamen.

A new study from the U.N.'s refugee agency says the number of forcibly displaced people globally is likely to top 60 million in 2015.

Yusra Mardini struggled to keep up her training in war-torn Damascus. Then swimming became a matter of life or death during her perilous crossing to Greece. Now the refugee hopes to qualify for Rio.

Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch says what the U.S. is seeing is dwarfed by the massive flow of refugees into other countries, such as Jordan and Italy.

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.

NPR's David Welna reports on the 20th anniversary of the Mariel Boatlift, the massive wave of immigration from Cuba to Florida in 1980. Over a five-month period, 125-thousand Cuban refugees left Cuba from the port of Mariel, and traveled to the United States in small boats. Processing the huge influx overwhelmed the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The INS task was even harder because the refugees included convicted criminals who had been released from prison and mental patients freed from institutions.

NPR's Michael Sullivan wraps up our series on what the rise of the Taliban militia in Afghanistan has meant to the rest of central Asia. He reports from the Afhan-Pakistani border, where Afghan refugees talk about the life they had under the Taliban's strict brand of Islam... and why they fled a country they love.