Refugees

As more European countries announce coronavirus cases, Europe's populist politicians are attempting to use the health crisis to serve their own political goals. The COVID-19 virus affects about 86,000 people, 90 percent of whom are in China's Hubei province, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More: Coronavirus: All you need…

Frustration and anger are growing among refugees on the border between Turkey and Greece. They are waiting to seize an opportunity to get into the European Union via Bulgaria and Greece. The Turkish government says more than 117,000 refugees have crossed borders. But Greece has already deported some. Al Jazeera's…

Frustrated residents on the Greek island of Lesbos are attacking journalists, aid workers, and activists, as tensions surge over a new wave of migrants arriving by boat from Turkey. The eastern Mediterranean island of Lesbos lies just off Turkey’s western coast and on the frontline of irregular migration routes into…

As fighting rages on in Syria, the Greek prime minister has warned that any refugees who try to enter the country will be turned back. Thousands of migrants and refugees are trying to cross from Turkey after Ankara said it would no longer enforce its border. Al Jazeera's Natasha Ghoneim…

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…