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Syria

Obama calls Germany’s Merkel to talk Syrian refugee crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to round up support for his plans to host a high-level summit on refugees at the United Nations later this year. The White House says Obama discussed his plans Thursday in a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Civil War

Mohammed’s Journey: A Syrian’s long quest for a normal life

AT THE SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER (AP) — At the edge of a Balkan vineyard, Mohammed al-Haj lay down under a tree to collect his thoughts. Come nightfall, he and the other Syrians with him would make a run for it, past the fence of chain-link and barbed wire being built along the