A group of Syrian activists from across the world have started a hunger strike demanding Beirut investigates the killing of refugees in Lebanese military custody. A group of activists went on hunger strike this week [ More … ]
Five suicide bombers attacked Lebanese soldiers as they raided two Syrian refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday. Five suicide bombers blew themselves up during raids on two refugee [ More … ]
The United Nations’ refugee agency has urged North African neighbors to provide safe passage to dozens of Syrians who are stranded in a border zone between Algeria and Morocco. The United Nations’ refugee agency on [ 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 … ]
Tens of thousands of displaced Syrians have returned to an area controlled by Turkey and Turkish-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria, Turkey’s foreign minister said Saturday. Turkey’s military operation in Syria named Euphrates Shield, which [ More … ]
Millions of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon’s borders have caused huge pressure to public services and infrastructure, according to the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Lebanon has reached “breaking point” Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned [ 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 … ]
More than 65,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in northern Syria in the past few weeks, the United Nations said, as various groups launched fierce campaigns to end Islamic state’s influence there. The [ 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’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken a stand on social media against the temporary US ban signed by Donald Trump on refugees and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. Trump’s order bans Syrian refugees, claiming [ More … ]
After the new US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, the consequences have immediately started to appear as tens of travelers were held detained in [ More … ]
The new US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling a campaign-trail promise to introduce what he dubbed “extreme vetting.” “I’m establishing new [ More … ]
A bomb blast struck the Rukban camp for displaced people in Syria near the border with Jordan on Saturday, causing injuries and deaths, and worsening the already dire situation in that area. Rukban is located [ 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 … ]
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