As the evacuation of civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo continues, one 65-year-old refugee mother's only wish is to see her family re-united and together once again. Mother-of-seven Nofa Mitar is just one among the millions of Syrians who sought refuge in Turkey five years ago...

A Japanese program aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria promised Wednesday to remove language from documents which implied that pregnant women are not welcome to apply. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in May that immigration-shy Japan, with a population of...

(Eqtsad)- Around 30,000 Syrians from the provinces of Latakia, Idlib and Aleppo live in Urfa Tel Hamoud Camp 1, close to the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn but inside Turkish territory. The camp residents experience terrible conditions with the absence of any local or international supervision of...

(Middle East Eye)- Sasha Naffaa knows how lonely it can be to leave your friends behind when you move to a new country. That’s why the fourth grader hopes a stuffed animal, designed specifically to welcome Syrian refugee children to Canada, can help ease their difficult transition....

Over 1.3 million Syrian refugees in the country are under the age of 18, the Interior Ministry has revealed Thursday. According to the figures collected by the Directorate General of Migration Management, 1,322,187 Syrian children currently live in Turkey. Turkey hosts the largest number...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Friday met with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley town of Barr Elias. Steinmeier arrived in Beirut at dawn for a one-day trip to Lebanon. UNHCR has registered some 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, but the Lebanese government...

Thousands of refugees and migrants will be relocated indoors from tent camps in Greece as temperatures fell below zero for the first time, the UN refugee agency said Thursday. The operation began Wednesday in the snow-covered foothills of Olympus, Greece's tallest mountain, to move around...

A Hungarian court jailed a Syrian man for 10 years Wednesday for allegedly inciting a border riot by migrants last year, ruling it an "act of terror" and sparking outrage from rights groups. Critics said it was "absurd" to use anti-terrorism legislation – enacted last year by hard-line...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's regime decided to transform the “reconciliation” experience which it used to call it “return to the lap of homeland” to Europe announcing the formation of “Central Committee for Popular Reconciliation in Europe”. Faisal Qashasha who named himself the “head of main...

At a supermarket cash register in Zaatari refugee camp, a shopper looks into a small screen as a device scans her iris. The machine checks the customer’s identity before allowing her to complete the purchase without cash, e-cards or vouchers. Some 76,000 Syrian refugees at the sprawling camp...

(The Guardian)- A group of unaccompanied Syrian teenagers who have sought safety in the UK have made an impassioned plea for Britons to accept them “with open arms, not with racism and hate” and help hundreds of other minors who are stuck in France. Omar, a 16-year-old Syrian who arrived in...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Caravan, an artistic educational project in a form of “mobile theatre” talks about suffering of Syrian refugees in Lebanon via using different presentation technique besides music, lighting and sceneries. The project is funded by the European...

Syrian refugee was seriously hurt and others left without shelter as assailants wielding rocks and firebombs targeted a migrant camp on the Greek island of Chios, officials said Friday. The attacks were among several incidents at the Souda camp just days after lawmakers from the Greek...

(Middle East Eye)- As a child, the 26-year-old lived in a camp for internally-displaced persons in Yemen, after a civil war broke out in the country in the mid-1990s. There, he saw first-hand how poor living conditions and diseases impacted families and children in particular. “There was a...

(The Guardian)- More needs to be done to ease the difficulties facing refugees if they are to reach their potential in the UK, according to the first major piece of research into the government’s resettlement scheme. Academics from the University of Sussex are close to completing a...

Reporting by Elias Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians came to Yemen from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama and other cities hoping to find safe refuge far from the brutality of the Assad regime. As many of them said, they came with nothing but their Arab and Levantine identity. Yemen was a favored...

Lebanese authorities have demanded Friday that Syrian refugees in the northern Akkar district evacuate their camp, which includes 350 families, as part of a reorganization plan, a Lebanese security source said. The source who spoke anonymously due to restrictions on speaking to media, told...

Cyprus police say a Syrian woman says she gave birth aboard a boat loaded with 128 other migrants as they made their way from Turkey to the eastern Mediterranean island. Police spokesman Andreas Angelides said Thursday the woman told authorities the birth took place a day into the two-day...

(The Guardian)- A Syrian man quietly arrived in Cambodia on Sunday, becoming just the sixth refugee detained by Australia on Nauru to take up an offer of resettlement in the third-party country since a $40m deal was signed two years ago. The country’s immigration chief, General Sok Phal,...

(Independent)- Of the Syrians, I have had it easy. Yes, I was jailed both by the Syrian government and later in Lebanon. Yes, I lost all my worldly possessions and have been separated from my family for four years. But I am a lucky one. I say that because due to my persecution by Syrian...