BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of asylum seekers in Europe reached a seven-year high last year, with more than 1.1 million people applying for international protection in 2023, most of them Syrian nationals, the European Union said Wednesday. The increase in asylum seekers and other migrants...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees revealed that the number of Syrian refugees returning to the war-torn country from 5 countries in the Middle East declined by a quarter last year compared to 2022. The UNHCR said in a statement that 37,552 Syrian refugees from Jordan, Egypt,...

The head of the regime's Central Dentists Syndicate said that in Germany alone there are approximately 10,000 Syrian doctors, including a large number of dentists. Dr. Zakaria Al-Basha told the state-run Tishreen newspaper on the sidelines of his participation in the Aleppo Scientific Dental...

ABOARD THE GEO BARENTS (AP) — A nonprofit rescue ship operating off the coast of Libya saved 258 migrants in two separate operations in the early hours of Friday morning. The first of the two rescues involved a 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) wooden boat filled with 162 migrants, including 17...