A Catholic Archbishop from the Syrian city of Aleppo is appealing to Western countries to stop taking in any more refugees and instead exert more effort into finding a resolution to the conflict.
Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed at least 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group said, and fighting raged in parts of northern Syria despite a deal to cease hostilities in the city of Aleppo.
Christian and Kurdish neighbourhoods in Aleppo have come under attack and a number of children have been killed as Syria continues to struggle with intensified fighting, more than five years into its civil war.
An extra 3,000 unaccompanied children may be accepted into Britain after a number of Conservative MPs are rumoured to vote against the government in a crucial vote on Monday evening.