Syrian Refugees

Leaders from the Syrian community of Kansas City say they are relieved by the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, following a 13-year civil war. "We ask everybody to leave us alone and rebuild our country by ourselves," says the president of Overland Park-based nonprofit Mercy Without Limits.

A Sudanese woman gathered her six grandchildren to explain the family’s 1996 escape to Ethiopia from war-torn Sudan. The children had not yet been born…

Sunday afternoon, refugees, volunteers and community members gathered at the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City to celebrate the one-year anniversary…

Buried within the president’s executive order that, among other things, suspends the U.S. refugee program, there’s a provision that’s garnered little…