Alan Kurdi’s corpse, photographed by a Turkish journalist in the morning’s early light on Sept. 2, 2015, looked at first like a sleeping toddler, the 3-year-old’s cheek pressed against the sand in ...

Tima Kurdi awoke on Sept. 2 at home in Vancouver to dozens of missed calls on her phone from relatives in Syria. The news was grim: Her brother Abdullah’s wife and two children had drowned crossing ...

ISTANBUL --The three-year-old Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed after washing ashore in Turkey now has a name. Aylan Kurdi lost his life crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. His ...

"All I want to do is sit next to the grave of my wife and children," he said. — -- The Syrian father whose two young sons died after falling off an overcrowded boat headed to Turkey was captured ...

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Not far from where a sobbing Abdullah al-Kurdi described the moment his two children “slipped away” into the inky blackness of the Aegean Sea, plans were being hatched. Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip, ...

The Syrian mother who died at sea with her two sons attempting to reach the Greek mainland earlier this week revealed that the family's final destination was Germany in a heartbreaking final ...

The photograph of Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach, moved the world. Now, his father has become a pawn in the region’s intractable conflicts. It’s tearing him apart. Abdullah Kurdi sits in the head office ...

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Yasmien Kurdi, whose daughter Ayesha was allegedly bullied in school, disclosed that she will be having a conversation with Department of Education (DepEd) secretary Sonny Angara to discuss possible ...