Refugees

Turkey and the European Union are on a new collision course because of the millions of war refugees and migrants it is looking after. Tens of thousands, mostly Syrians exiled in Turkey, are heading towards the borders with Bulgaria and Greece. That's after Turkey eased border controls following the killing…

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Antakya, Turkey - As tens of thousands of Syrian civilians continue to flee their homes in northwest Idlib for the Turkish border, humanitarian and aid organisations are warning of an increasingly dire situation. More than 950,000 Syrians have been forced from their homes since December, according to the United Nations, in the wake…

It is the biggest single-day loss of Turkish soldiers in Syria's civil war. Thirty-three Turkish soldiers were killed on Thursday by government air raids in Idlib, the last rebel-held province. Turkey retaliated with attacks on Syrian army positions. It also appears to be putting pressure on allies in Europe to…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- One of the more threadbare aphorisms in foreign-policy circles is that Pakistan negotiates with the West by pointing a gun at its own head. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has updated this unique bargaining technique by contriving to aim one pistol at the West even as…

Bru refugees at a relief camp in Tripura. File   Security alert as rift between refugees and local population widens. Several organisations have called an indefinite general strike in north Tripura’s Kanchanpur subdivision from Wednesday to protest against a move to resettle the Mizoram Bru refugees in the State. The…

As former Vice President Joe Biden prepared his closing statement at the Nevada Democratic primary debate on Wednesday night, protesters began to yell “You deported 3 million people.” The crowed booed as protesters continued to yell, and Biden began speaking again once they left the room. The undetermined number of…

Sara M Moniuszko USA TODAYPublished 11:06 AM EST Feb 18, 2020Royals, they're just like us — even when it comes to staying fit!Such is the case with Prince Charles, who joked about the struggle to keep in shape when he was gifted a shirt during a visit to the Emma Willis workshop in Gloucester,…

Pakistan and the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, are holding a conference to highlight the challenges facing Afghan refugees. It is estimated more than two million are sheltering in Pakistan, with some displaced since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Continuing violence makes returning home dangerous. But a repatriation programme…

Islamabad, Pakistan - The United Nations has thrown its weight behind a peace process aimed at ending almost 20 years of devastating war in Afghanistan, with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling it an opportunity that "cannot" be missed. Guterres was speaking at a high-level international summit in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, held on Monday to…