The International Rescue Committee is horrified at the scenes from Idlib province, northern Syria, where around 100 people—including children—are reported dead after a suspected chemical gas attack on April 4.

A new day is dawning for Ahmed*, a 17-year-old boy from Syria. 

12-year-old Nyaber was separated from her parents when violence broke out in her village - this is her story.

In 2010, the International Rescue Committee responded to a devastating earthquake in Haiti that forced more than two million people from their homes.

We had watched the dinghy from about a mile out, making its way slowly across the Aegean Sea to the island of Lesbos. The scene along this eight-mile stretch of coastline has become familiar: a small corps of volunteers waiting on the shore, using hand gestures to caution the person steering the boat to slow down; the overcrowded dinghy full of anxious faces turned toward land tantalizingly close.