The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

An excerpt from Hamid's latest novel: a man and a woman caught in between escape and uncertainty.

How the refugee crisis has made a lot of people very, very rich.

It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East — and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash.

What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.

Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.

Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.

Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?

The story of the Refugee Olympic team.

Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.

More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.

Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?

A potential assassin observes a wave of Zimbabwean refugees.

"They plunge into the Limpopo, sometimes drowning, and, if they survive, rise like mists from the water to cut holes in the border fence into his country. Then they plough through the jungle, and then eventually onto this very road that runs in front of his house. Headed to Jo’burg. What puzzles him, what he would really like to find out, is how they leave no footprints on the earth, make no mark, and drop nothing. And how it is that when they walk, like whispering, they do not cast shadows on the earth."

A Kosovar refugee must decide between love and family.