Tag: Syrian refugees

Pope Francis decried what he called Europe’s “indifferent and anaesthetised conscience” over migrants, during Good Friday prayers in Rome during which he also slammed...

Hollywood star and UN refugee agency envoy Angelina Jolie on Tuesday met Syrian refugee families living in squalid conditions in Lebanon, on the fifth...

Brandon Stanton, the man behind the popular website, Humans of New York, has written a powerful open letter to US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald...

Canada is providing 7,500 refurbished computers to Syrian refugees and hopes to give them a leg up in school and in job searches with...

The Balkan trail from Greece to northern Europe used by floods of migrants was blocked on Wednesday after a string of nations slammed shut...

Turkey is ready “if necessary” to let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees trapped on its border after fleeing a regime assault, Turkish...

British tennis star Andy Murray has helped raise more than 83,000 pounds ($121,000) for Syrian refugee children by donating money for every ace he...

The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they were greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who...

Pakistan has called for a clear, resolute and unified approach based on humanitarian principles to tackle the unprecedented refugee crisis in the Mediterranean basin.   Speaking...

The United States (US) House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama's...

"The Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish," tweeted CNN reporter Ellise Labbot on Thursday, after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block Syrian...

The first of 12,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria to be resettled by Australia will arrive within 24 hours, the government said Monday,...

Carefully shielding a lit candle against the cold pouring rain, Syrian refugee Ghaled, 22, had come to the French embassy in Berlin to pay...

In the Istanbul district of Esenyurt, during the Muslim holiday of Eid, a skinny Syrian boy counted his friends on his fingers. "Vedat... Serkan... Sefa... Emre,"...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that if he's elected president he would send back Syrian refugees taken in by the United States...

Politicians in Germany have criticised Saudi Arabia’s offer to build 200 mosques in the country for the ‘spiritual needs’ of Syrian refugees, given that...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a call by Israel’s opposition leader to provide refuge to Syrian refugees, saying the country is too...