The number of asylum applications increased in the regions of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany during the first half of 2022, according to the local Welt newspaper. The newspaper stated in a report that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees registered 16,067 applications from...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees refuses to send Syrian refugees back to their country from Lebanon, a Lebanese minister has said, in an official response to a plan announced by a cabinet minister earlier this month. Minister of the Displaced in Lebanon’s caretaker government, Issam...

The last aid deliveries from Turkey to Syrians in the rebel-held northwest took place on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council failed to extend humanitarian aid for another year. Almost all Council members favored a year-long extension, but Russia demanded a six-month renewal, with a new...

Police in North Macedonia say they have discovered 87 migrants crammed into a truck with a trailer in the southern part of the country and arrested two men for migrant smuggling. Police said the migrants, who included 45 Syrians, 39 Pakistanis, two Congolese and one Indian — were found...