Seven refugees, including children, have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their boat sank, according to official sources. The Turkish Coast Guard said that the boat, which left from western province of Mugla's Bodrum district, had been en route to Greece’s Kos Island -- one of the preferred...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- ِA Syrian refugee family in Lebanon said their two-month-old baby boy was died due to a medical mistake that led to septicemia in a Tripoli-based hospital. Saeed's family, who thought their baby's illness was no more than an infection could be...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Om Yasin, a Syrian refugee from Homs lives in Mafraq city in Jordan, suffers of renal failure and kidney stones, she suspects that a medical mistake caused her renal failure. Mrs Faiza al-Zardah who came to Jordan few years ago, told Zaman Al Wasl...

Turkish police have seized more than 2,500 unsafe life jackets destined for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, in the latest crackdown on businesses exploiting refugees in western Turkey, reports said Friday. Police raided 120 underground workshops and companies in eight...

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...

Germany needs to raise spending on police, education and daycare by at least 5 billion euros ($5.45 billion) to successfully integrate a record number of asylum seekers and avoid social tensions, its deputy government leader said Monday. Europe's most populous country and largest...

Queen Rania of Jordan has hit out with total class at Charlie Hebdo’s Alan Kurdi cartoon . The drawing showed Alan, the drowned Syrian refugee whose death shook Europe out of inertia, as an adult chasing a woman. It was paired with a caption saying the two-year-old would have grown up...

The United Nations' refugee agency will seek additional resources for Turkey, the world's largest host of refugees, and push for more resettlement, its head said on Saturday, as the civil war in Syria is set to enter its sixth year. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...

 Romanian border authorities say they have stopped a group of 60 migrants who are suspected of trying to enter illegally across Romania's southwest border from Serbia. Police spokeswoman Roxana Costache said Saturday the migrants were men aged 20 to 40 and came from Pakistan, Iraq,...

German prosecutors have offered a cash reward of 10,000 euros ($10,890) for information that could lead to the arrest of suspects in mass sexual assaults on women partying on New Year's Eve in the city of Cologne. More than 600 women in several cities across Germany filed...

The new head of the UN’s refugee agency visited a camp in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Filippo Grandi, who became the High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this month, arrived at the camp in Gaziantep province’s Nizip district where some of the near 2.5 million refugees housed by Turkey...

Donald Trump added a new riff to his campaign speech Tuesday: the lyrics of Al Whiston's song "The Snake." In the song, a woman takes care of an injured snake and is then surprised when it bites her. Trump sees the song as a fitting comparison to the U.S. decision to take in  Syrian...

Turkey's interior minister said Wednesday the suicide bomber in an attack which killed 10 people in Istanbul's historic tourist district a day earlier was not on any wanted list but had registered with Turkey's immigration authorities. Efkan Ala said the man's fingerprints were on record with...

Pope Francis on Monday urged European governments to keep welcoming migrants while acknowledging security and other concerns over the recent mass influx of people mainly from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Addressing ambassadors to the Holy See in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve...

Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to ease the pressure on them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's minister for European Affairs, said on Monday. The number of people immigrating illegally exceeded 150,000 in 2015, and Turkish authorities stopped 500 migrants...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rehabilitation and physiotherapy centre in Reyhanli, a Turkish border city with Syria, is about to shut down due to lack of funds, leaving its Syrian patients wondering of their future medical and clinical conditions, or even how to afford for...

Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance towards refugees. Marking a sharp jump from the caseload of 379 given on...