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Police members respond to the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood on 27 October 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Picture: AFP.

Syrian refugees

Syrian refugee in US arrested for plotting church attack

By AFP

The suspect allegedly passed on documents about the construction and the use of explosives to a man he believed to be an IS group sympathizer, though he turned...

  • A screengrab of migrants in Mexico trying to rush through the US border. Picture: CNN

    Migrants to affluent nations may be healthier than the native-born

    For the analysis, researchers examined data from 96 studies with mortality estimates for more than 15.2 million international migrants in 92 countries.

    1318 days ago
  • This handout picture released by the UNHCR, shows Special Envoy Angelina Jolie meeting Falak, 8, during a visit to West Mosul, on June 16, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    UN special envoy Jolie meets Syrian refugees in northern Iraq

    The Hollywood actress toured the Domiz camp, home to 33,000 refugees from Syria’s seven-year conflict.

    1513 days ago
  • FILE: Amber Heard. Picture: AFP.

    Amber Heard raising money for Syrian refugee

    The 32-year-old actress took to her Instagram account on Thursday to ask her followers to 'help her save a life'.

    1535 days ago
  • The Italian Navy rescued migrants off its coast on 23 June 2016. Picture: @ItalianNavy

    Migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fall by a third in 2017

    Deaths at sea have declined as well, according to the IOM, with 2,833 this year, down more than 38% from 4,581 last year.

    1680 days ago
  • FILE: Syrian children, who were evacuated from the last rebel-held pockets of Syria's northen city of Aleppo, flash the sign of victory upon their arrival on 19 December 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Turkey says EU funds not being actively used for needs of Syrian refugees

    EU officials have said Turkey has a long path ahead of it before becoming a member of the bloc or being granted visa-free travel.

    1681 days ago
  • Syrian refugees arrive at the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp, some 20 kilometres outside the Cypriot capital Nicosia, on September 10, 2017, after they were rescued off the northwestern coast of the island. Picture: AFP.

    US plans to admit maximum 45,000 refugees in next fiscal year

    On the other were foreign policy experts who argued that taking refugees into the United States is vital to ensure other nations keep their borders open.

    1776 days ago
  • Syrian refugees arrive at the Kokkinotrimithia refugee camp, some 20 kilometres outside the Cypriot capital Nicosia, on September 10, 2017, after they were rescued off the northwestern coast of the island. Picture: AFP.

    More than 300 Syrian refugees rescued, arrive in Cyprus

    The vessels were tracked sailing to the north-west of the island and were thought to have set off from the Turkish coastal city of Mersin.

    1792 days ago
  • FILE: German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Picture: AFP.

    Merkel ‘has no regrets’ over refugee policy despite political cost

    In an interview, German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied she had made any mistakes with her open-door policy.

    1807 days ago
  • Demonstrators wearing Paddington Bear masks hold up a banner as they protest outside the Home Office in London in October 2016. Picture: AFP.

    [ANALYSIS] Paddington Bear: the story of a refugee & a message of kindness

    Eleanor Byrne says we only have to look at the character of Paddington Bear to see the predicament of a Syrian child.

    1861 days ago
  • FILE: Pope Francis. Picture: AFP

    Pope likens migrant holding centres to ‘concentration camps’

    During a visit to a Rome basilica, where he met migrants, Francis told of his trip to a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last year.

    1933 days ago
  • FILE: Syrian refugees walk among tents at Karkamis refugee camp on 16 January 2014 near the town of Gaziantep, south of Turkey. Picture: AFP.

    UN calls on Gulf countries to do more to help Syrian refugees

    UNHCR called on Gulf Arab states to give more to help Syrians displaced by six years of civil war.

    1953 days ago
  • An injured Syrian man arrives on a stretcher to receive treatment at a makeshift hospital on 3 October 2016, following reported air strikes in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. Picture: AFP.

    MSF says Trump's refugee ban puts Syrian lives at risk

    Donald Trump's administration has banned entry of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries.

    2015 days ago
  • Palestinian and Syrian children play on a street in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp, on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut, in 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Syrian child refugees taught to release stress and resist recruitment

    Young Syrian refugees are at particular risk of being recruited by extremist groups in Lebanon and elsewhere.

    2044 days ago
  • Migrants and refugees hold a placard (C) reading on hunger strike they wait to cross the border between Greece and Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni on November 21, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Greece vows to improve conditions in overcrowded migrant camps

    Some 60,000 migrants, mostly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, are still scattered across the country.

    2048 days ago
  • Four-column graphic on the latest UN data for Syrian refugees around the world, resettlement pledges made and asylum applications.

    The Syrian refugee crisis

    Latest UN data for Syrian refugees around the world, resettlement pledges made and asylum applications.

    2086 days ago
  • FILE: German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere. Picture: Thierry Charlier/AFP.

    Germany warns of threat from more than 500 ‘potential attackers’

    Many Germans fear that fighters belonging to the Islamic State jihadist group could have slipped into Germany.

    2157 days ago
  • FILE: Migrants and refugees warm themselves by a fire as they wait to cross borders. Picture: AFP.

    US to meet target of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees - White House

    US admission of Syrian refugees has been a hot button issue in the 2016 race for the White House.

    2169 days ago
  • A protester holds a banner as he takes part in a demonstration in front of United Nations offices in Beirut in solidarity with the civilians of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and against the regime of the Syrian president, on 1 May, 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Scores of families leave besieged Aleppo under Russia - Damascus plan

    Syrian state television showed scores of mostly women gathered in a government-controlled area of the city.

    2199 days ago
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