“I wish for death,” says Umm Khattab*, a Syrian refugee who has called a flimsy tent along the northeast border of Lebanon home for years. “We live in constant anxiety and terror. Death has become more merciful than living here.” Her words capture the stark...
The Hague – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Thursday released a report to mark World Refugee Day 2024, in which the group notes that it has documented the arrest by Syrian regime forces of at least 4,714 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) returning to Syria. SNHR...
MILAN (AP) — The Italian coast guard on Thursday recovered 12 more bodies from a weekend shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline, bringing to 20 the number of known victims from the sinking. Dozens more are missing and presumed dead. The bodies, including...
A document revealed by Al-Quds al-Arabi on Saturday that the Syrian regime had instructed regime forces to institute a full siege on al-Rukban refugee camp on the Syria-Jordan border on 1 April. The over two-months long siege has blocked almost all food,...