Campaign rhetoric in the United States is harming a vital U.S. resettlement program for Syrian and other refugees fleeing war and persecution, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday called for a ban on Muslims entering the...

At least six children died and eight other people rescued on Tuesday after a boat carrying migrants bound for Greece capsized off Turkey's western coast near the city of Izmir, local media reported. Responding to a distress signal sent at midnight on Monday, the Turkish coastguard extended a...

The United Nations voiced concern on Tuesday at the fate of 12,000 Syrian refugees stranded at the Syria-Jordan border in deteriorating humanitarian conditions. "The lives of refugees will be at risk in the coming months," Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...

Countries that reject Syrian refugees because they are Muslims are fuelling Islamic State and other militant groups and contributing to the threat of terrorism, U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday. "When people say they cannot receive Syrian refugees because they are Muslims,...