Press TV - Some 700,000 people have been displaced in fighting across Syria in the first months of 2018, a regional United Nations official has announced.
Panos Moumtzis, the UNs regional humanitarian coordinator for Syrias crisis, said in a statement on Tuesday that fighting across Syria was forcing more and more people from their homes, warning ...
Soon there could be an influx of Syrian refugee families settled in America. They would be typically settled in a small city, lets say like Flint, Michigan. The city authorities would receive help and a few special federal programs to assist in supplying the needs of these newcomers to USA. They would be given a house or an apartment, which would be ...
US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says a lot of Syrians accepted for asylum in the US are members of the Daesh (ISIL) Takfiri group.
Trump criticized President Barack Obama's refugee policy and said the number of refugees and immigrants is increasing in the US and if presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ...
Turkish border guards have killed nine members of a Syrian family, who were trying to cross the frontier and take refuge in the neighboring country.
The deadly incident took place near the village of Kherbet Eljoz in Syrias Idlib Province on Saturday night as the Turkish forces opened fire on the refugees, leaving eight more Syrians injured....
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested building a new cityon the Syriansoil to provide shelter to millions of the Arab countrys nationals fleeing the violence in their homeland.
In a late Friday speech, Erdogan said he had discussed with US President Barack Obama the idea of constructing a 4,500-square-kilometer city in northern Syria ...
Tehran, Dec 18, IRNA With almost a million people having crossed the Mediterranean as refugees and migrants so far this year, and conflicts in Syria and elsewhere continuing to generate staggering levels of human suffering, 2015 is likely to exceed all previous records for global forced displacement, UNHCR warned in a new report Friday.
UNHCR's ...
Building walls and treating asylum seekers like would-be terrorists is the kind of overreaction that the Paris attackers would have wanted.
The world is being reminded in the most brutal way that the Islamic State is not just a regional threat in the Middle East, but a global extremist organization capable of carrying out sophisticated attacks in ...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee children of school age are not provided with education in Turkey, a new report says.
According to data released by Human Rights Watch on Monday, only one third of the Syrian refugee children in Turkey are attending school. Of more than 700,000 children, only about 200,000 were attending classes in the previous ...
The Western demand that Syria's Assad must step down is irresponsible and has resulted in millions of refugees, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Western countries' demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step downbefore any resolution tothe Syrian conflict can be made, inan interview toSpanish ...
Morw than 800,000 refugees are set to return to Syria thanks to Vladimir Putins efforts to obliterate the ISIS terrorist group militants.
Last month Moscow launched a bombing campaign against the twisted State terror group, which controls swathes of Syria and has forced thousands of people to flee the country.
Many desperate asylum seekers have ...
Seventeen Syrian refugees struggling to reach Greece have drowned after their boatsank off the Turkish coast, an official says.
According to Gov. Amir Cicek of the Turkish southwestern province of Mugla, the Turkish Coast Guard pulled 20 other Syrian refugees from the water on Sunday, the state-run Anadolu News Agency reported.
The Syrian asylum ...
Alwaght- The large number of refugees from Iraq and Syria has been increasingly growing due to ISIS terrorist acts and also crisis in Syria which began more than four years ago. Migration rate of the refugees to Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon and in recent weeks to Europe has increased in a high speed. The refugees mainly traveled to the Balkans through ...
Laszlo Toroczkai is the mayor of Asotthalom, a town on the Hungary-Serbia border. If you're a migrant or a refugee seeking to enter his domain, good luck. He's out to get you.
In a YouTube video, Toroczkai, a far-right politician with a closely cropped haircut,lays out a warning to illegal trespassers. Any refugee who damages the boundary fence ...
The UN secretary general has condemned the Hungarian governments treatment of refugees on its southern border, arguing that the use of teargas, pepper spray and water cannon on people fleeing war and hardship is not acceptable.
Hungary sparked outrage from the international community on Wednesday after firing gas canisters and spraying water at ...
Getty Images photographers Dan Kitwood and Win McNamee are documenting refugees' journey as they flee war in Syria and head towards safety in the European Union. Our previous gallery covered the first part of the trip: by boat from Turkey to Kos, followed by a ferry trip to Athens.
In this gallery, we catch up with the migrants and refugees in northern ...
Australia will take an extra 12,000 asylum seekers displaced due to the crisis in the Middle East, says the country's prime minister.
"Australia will resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the Syria/Iraq conflict," Tony Abbott told reporters in the Australian capital, Canberra, on Wednesday.
The figure would be on top of the existing 13,...
The family of toddler Aylan whose lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach had been repeatedly displaced by Syria's brutal four-year war, a local journalist said Thursday.
Images of the child wearing a red T-shirt and blue shorts spread like wildfire through social media and his plight has dominated international headlines, in a heart-rending ...
At least nine Syrian refugees struggling to reach Greece have drowned in two separate incidents after their boats overturned in Turkish waters, a coastguard official from Turkey says.
In the first incident, three people were rescued and six more went missing after a fiberglass boat, carrying 16 Syrians, sank after leaving Turkey's Bodrum peninsula ...
The United States will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 refugees from Syria in 2016, according to the US State Department.
What we're really committed to is helping to foster the kind of political transition inside Syria, so that it is a safe environment for Syrian people to return, including the millions that are seeking refuge in Turkey right now,...
The United Nations says the number of Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their country has surpassed four million as the crisis there intensifies.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the number of people seeking refugein neighboring countries has increased by 1 million to more than 4,013,000 in the past 10 months.
The figures ...
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