WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering tightening the vetting process for women and children seeking to enter the United States as refugees, a proposal that if adopted would bring security checks closer to those for adult men, three sources with knowledge of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Supreme Criminal Court in Amman on Tuesday has sentenced a Jordanian national to death for raping and killing a Syrian refugee child three months ago. The brutal crime against the 7-year-old Syrian child on July 6 has sparked wide anger in Jordan, making...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 47,000 Syrian refugees have returned to Turkey after the 15-day Eid holidays via Bab al-Salama border crossing, while about 7,000 have decided to stay in the northern countryside of Aleppo, the border administration said on Monday.  This week 476...

Lebanon can no longer handle vast numbers of Syrian refugees, its president said on Monday, urging world powers to help them return to the calmer parts of their war-torn homeland. More than six years into the Syrian war, 1.5 million refugees who fled the violence now account for a...