Syrians eating grass to survive

A Syrian activist, Mazen Burhan, said on Sunday in Madaya (Syria), that residents have been reduced to eating grass and leaves in order to survive.

Assad says only Syrian people can decide if he quits

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad answers questions during an interview with al-Manar's journalist Amro Nassef, in Damascus, Syria, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA on August 25, 2015.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian media he would only quit power if the Syrian people wanted him to and not under pressure from the West.

This is our last hope': Six Syrians on the hardest part of their journey to Europe

Clockwise from the left: Marwand Deep, Amar Abdin, Marah Babili, Ahmed al Nassaf, Mustafa Haj Yaman and Jumana Hmaidy are all of examples of those who traveled hundreds of miles by boat, train, bus and car in the hopes of claiming asylum in Europe. (Anthony Faiola and Griff Witte/The Washington Post)

Thousands of refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq and beyond found themselves trapped in Hungary, a nation that did not want them and that tried to block their path.