As the coronavirus (Covid-19) spreads, the media focus has mainly centered on government action such as the response of the US government which recently passed a massive emergency spending bill. But there are also large concentrations of refugee camps across...
Turkish President Recep Erdogan kept his word Saturday, Feb. 29 and opened the border Turkey shares with Greece and Bulgaria, unleashing a wave of 18,000 Syrian refugees. Erdogan had long threatened to send the refugees into the greater part of...
According to a new study released by Doctors Without Borders, more than two-thirds of migrants fleeing Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador left their home countries after a family member was murdered, kidnapped or disappeared. What Does the Study Say? The...
As various media outlets reported over the weekend, the European Union has drastically cut its aid pledges to Turkey for the year 2020. The EU’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell is said to have announced this in a letter...
As government troops tighten the noose on Syria’s Idlib province, hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians have been driven from their homes. For the displaced masses, tough choices lie ahead. The northbound road towards Turkey may be their only hope...
Her face once inspired hope in the downtrodden – but as Aung San Suu Kyi’s drawn features appeared on screen, the refugee camp erupted in fury. “Liar! Liar! Shame!” rose up the cries from the squalid, Bangladeshi settlement. Half a...
The last round of talks on Syria, the 14th of its kind to be held in Nur Sultan (former Astana), in Kazakhstan was concluded last week with a framework formula statement endorsed by Russia, Turkey and Iran, the guarantors of...
Life may never completely return to normal for Syrian refugees displaced by a decade-long civil war, but their plight could at least be treated with dignity and basic respect for humanity. Instead, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has seen fit...
Somalians are fleeing to Ethiopia to avoid drought, hunger and extremist group, al-Shabaab. More than 5,000 Somalis – four times more than in 2018 – have sought refuge in the East African nation this year alone. Refugee, Barwako Abdi, said:...
Weeks after the guns went largely silent following some of the most intensive battles waged in the eight years of conflict in Syria and the major advances made by the Syrian army against militants and Jihadis in rural Hama and...
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