Editing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian women refugees in Lebanon face unbearably difficult living conditions, which make them subject to exploitation and abuse, resulted mainly from the shortfalls in international assistance and discriminatory policies imposed by the Lebanese...

At least 18 migrants died Sunday after their boat capsized in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece, a Turkish official said. The Turkish coastguard rescued 15 migrants from the boat off the coastal town of Didim in southwest Turkey, the official told AFP, speaking on...

Turkish authorities on Saturday detained at least two human traffickers after they shuttled some 120 Syrian refugees to the Aegean coast in a sign Turkey may be stepping up efforts to curb the flow of migrants to Europe. Gendarmes stopped the group, mostly made up of women and...

Germany and Italy's interior ministers have written to the European Commission calling for an EU-wide system to register migrants and a harmonization of selection procedures and rights for asylum seekers, a German newspaper reported. In the letter seen by Sueddeutsche Zeitung,...