The German Federal Ministry of the Interior revealed that 1,867 Syrians had returned to their homeland by the end of August with funding from the German federal government. The ministry added, according to the German news agency DPA, that the government provides support to refugees who wish...

More than 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland from neighboring Lebanon this year following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, a United Nations official told AFP. The Syrian civil war, which erupted in 2011 with Assad’s brutal repression of anti-government...

The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has declined to 2.5 million, according to official Turkish figures, amid expectations from Ankara of an increase in the rate of voluntary returns. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that the number of Syrian refugees residing in Turkey...

Belgian media revealed a scandal involving the leak of personal data on hundreds of asylum seekers in the country. Official files were found in a dumpster at the Tioux camp in Wallonia, a temporary reception center run by Fidasil during the winter. The scandal coincided with new decisions...