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Australian leader vague on fate of asylum seekers

( Associated Press )- The future of hundreds of asylum seekers languishing at an Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea remained in doubt Saturday, with the leaders of both countries declining to provide details about what will happen to the men if a deal to resettle them in the...

Turkey planning new operation against PKK in northern Iraq

( Daily Star )- Turkey is planning in the next weeks to launch a new cross border military incursion to oust the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, a report said Thursday. The report in the pro-government Yeni Safak daily was not immediately...

Living costs mount in Syria's Azaz city, refugees suffer

By Badr Hussein (Eqtsad)- People in Azaz city northern of Syria suffer of high rent of houses and shops, added to expensive essential materials, due to the high volume of displaced people who settled in the city which created high demand on house to rent and affected prices of goods. There...

Number of people displaced from Mosul exceeds 300,000

More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from the northern Iraqi city in October, the United Nations said Tuesday. The United Nations' International Organisation for Migration estimates the number of people currently displaced to...