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Syrian journalist arrested in Jordan, threatened with expulsion

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ibrahim Awwad, a Syrian freelance journalist based in the Jordanian capital, Amman, who was arrested last week and is now threatened with being sent back to Syria. According to Fared Al-Mahlool, a friend and fellow journalist,...

Iraqi baby buried as death toll in EU-Belarus crisis grows

A Polish imam recited prayers Tuesday over the tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy, the latest life claimed as migrants from the Middle East have tried to slip into the European Union illegally and found their path blocked by soldiers in the forests of Poland and Belarus. After the...

On the scrap heap: Syria's 'horrific' child labour

Al-Bab (Syria) (AFP) – Syria's decade-long conflict forced 15-year-old Mohammad Makhzoum out of the classroom and into a scrapyard, where the orphan works 12 hours a day to support his younger siblings. Mohammad, who has been working since he was nine, leaves home everyday at dawn for a...

Kurdish doctor in Poland warns migrants not to come

A medical doctor of Kurdish origin working in Poland has warned people back in his homeland not to attempt the increasingly deadly journey into the European Union through Belarus and Poland. Dr. Arsalan Azzaddin was seeing migrants from Iraq and Syria coming into his hospital in eastern...