Morocco has accused Algeria of expelling 55 Syrian migrants across the countries’ shared border and summoned Algeria’s ambassador to criticize it for “inhumane behavior”, in the latest row between the North African rivals. Moroccan ministry of [ More … ]
United Nations refugee agency on Sunday called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of crisis, whose numbers exceeded five million and scattered around the globe, while the [ More … ]
When the US President Donald Trump issued his first travel ban to protect “National Security” as he claimed, lives of thousands of refugees, who were accepted or on the waiting list, were deeply affected. Some of them even [ More … ]
Bashar Al-Assad has said in a new interview that some of the refugees are in fact terrorists, just days after Amnesty international published a report about mass execution in Assad regime’s prisons. Yahoo News made [ More … ]
The subject of “safe zones” in Syria has been debated for years even as civilians continue to die and flee at the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and other forms of violence. However, it became [ More … ]
Canada began welcoming Syrian refugees in larger numbers last year, after a promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the new year. Through the past year, Canada gave the world a lesson about dealing with [ More … ]
Seventy-five Syrian refugees arrived Monday in Italy, coming from the camps of the UNHCR in Lebanon, as a part of a humanitarian agreement signed by Rome with Christian communities. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo [ More … ]
Ten thousand refugees stranded in Greece are ready to be relocated, European Parliament Vice President Dimitris Papadimoulis, who is also a member of Greece’s Syriza, said Tuesday. The refugees are unable to do so after several [ More … ]
The European Union announced Monday that €467 million out of €3 billion aid pledged for over 3 million refugees living Turkey had been disbursed. “The total amount of funding allocated under the Facility [for Refugees [ More … ]
There are now more than 60,000 refugees and migrants in Greece, most of them seeking to travel to Germany and other EU countries. But they are unable to do so after several eastern European and [ More … ]
Thousands of people were forced to flee to safety on Monday after a fire, set on purpose according to police, tore through a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. No casualties were reported [ More … ]
As world leaders gather for US President Barack Obama’s Leaders’ Summit on Refugees on September 20, they should urgently address how to get the more than 3.5 million refugee children around the world who aren’t [ More … ]
The Syria refugee crisis is changing women’s traditional roles with increasing numbers becoming heads of households and the main breadwinners, an international aid agency said on Saturday ahead of a global refugee summit. Most women [ More … ]
The European Union on Thursday announced it was contracting 348 million euros ($393 mln) to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, part of the bloc’s migration cooperation [ More … ]
Nada Homsi wrote in the Middle East Eye that the closure of the Balkan route and the resettlement deal between Turkey and the EU have exacerbated an already dire situation, with the European Commission still trying to [ More … ]
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