At least 12 refugees have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their boat sank near the Foca district of the western Turkish province of Izmir. The Turkish Coast Guard found the bodies on Thursday while on patrol. However, 26 other people were rescued, including children and women, and 12 more...

On New Years Eve in Cologne, Germany, a number of women said they were sexually harassed by a group of men that may have included some asylum seekers. Recent reports though show that Syrian refugees in Cologne helped protect an American woman from organized attacks. Hesham Ahmad Mohammad, 32,...

Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative bloc has slipped further due to her handling of the refugee crisis and worries about crime and security after assaults on women at New Year in Cologne, a poll showed on Wednesday. Merkel's open-door refugee policy, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new snowstorm in two weeks is sweeping Syrian refugee camps in Lebanese Bekaa valley and border town of Arsal, forecasts said Monday. More than 1 million Syrians are enduring another winter as refugees in Lebanon. For some, it is their fifth in a row, displaced by...