AMMAN, Jordan, May 5 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has joined the main host countries for Syrian refugees in calling on the international community to significantly step up efforts to address the ...

Beirut, September 3: The United Nations refugee agency has reported that approximately 850,000 Syrians have returned from neighboring nations since December. This announcement follows a five-day visit ...

BOSTON — What’s it like to flee Syria as a refugee? Global relief and development organization Oxfam America and Microsoft demonstrated the harrowing ordeal many migrants endure through a free exhibit ...

ZA'ATARI, JORDAN - FEBRUARY 01: Syrian refugees fetch water in the Za’atari refugee camp on February 1, 2013 in Za'atari, Jordan. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence and bombings in ...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon – Since the day she was married at 13 years of age, Ola,* a Lebanese woman, has never known safety. An abusive husband, a miscarriage and a series of psychological misdiagnoses left ...

As the chaos of Trump’s war on Iran and the stilted, tumultuous ceasefire negotiations drag on, the world has been watching with steep concern over the short- and long-term economic and energy ...

In the early hours of September 2, 2015, 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, his 5-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rihan drowned when their overcrowded boat capsized during the 12-mile journey from Bodrum ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will give an extra C$100 million ($75 million) to the United Nations' refugee agency to help it deal with the Syrian crisis, International Development Minister Marie-Claude ...