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 … ]
After ACTED non-governmental organization stopped its support for the camps of al-Bonyab al-Marsous and Othman Ben Affan near Darkush in Idlib countryside, the sufferings of the refugees in the camps aggravated. These camps accommodate refugees [ 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 … ]
A Syrian refugee arrested in Germany on Monday was ready to strike imminently with attacks similar to those in Brussels and Paris, while other refugees refused his actions and expressed relief for his arrest. Jaber [ More … ]
A Syrian refugee arrested in Germany on Monday was ready to strike imminently with attacks similar to those in Brussels and Paris, and the suspect was probably inspired by the Islamic State militant group, investigators [ More … ]
With more than 30,000 Syrian refugees facing serious barriers to employment and integration in Canada, the federal government is searching for fresh ideas to help newcomers join their communities and the labor force. Documents posted [ 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 … ]
Turkey’s state-run news agency says 137 migrants have been stopped trying to cross from Turkey’s Aegean coastline to the Greek islands, where thousands are stuck after the colsure of Balkan route earlier this year. Anadolu [ 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 … ]
A group of 292 Syrians went back to the Syrian town of Jarablus from Turkey on Wednesday, in the first wave of formal civilian resettlement since the launch of an Ankara-backed incursion into northern Syria two [ More … ]
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