Refugees

Earlier this month, hundreds of asylum seekers protested against conditions at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos after a woman was killed in a fire there. The fire was the third fatal incident in the camp in the last two months. An unaccomp…

A couple of years later, during the Turkish-Kurdish conflict of the 1990s, thousands of Kurds in Turkey became refugees. More than 40,000 died in the conflict between Kurdish insurgent groups and the Turkish state. Executions of civilians, forced displacement…

Media captionCivilians pelt US vehicles with potatoes US President Donald Trump says some American troops will stay on in Syria despite his call for them to be pulled out. He said a small number would protect oil fields while others would stay near Israel …

SEMALKA, Syria/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Made homeless when Turkish shells slammed into his house in northern Syria, Kurdish day laborer Suleiman Mohamed and his family spent 10 days in desperate search of shelter nearby. Now all they want is to reach neighbo…

Asylum seekers awaiting evacuation from war-torn Libya say the United Nations has turned down scores of refugee relocation requests, including from women and children previously held in Libyan government-run detention centres where they were allegedly subject…

U.S. military vehicles drive on a road in the town of Tal Tamr on Sunday after pulling out of a base in northern Syria. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says some troops may remain in northeast Syria to secure oil fields. Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images Th…

Hundreds of thousands of people swarmed the streets of Lebanon over the weekend to protest governmental corruption after initially pushing back against a proposed daily tax on messaging apps like WhatsApp.  People flooded the country's major cities, includin…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption US military vehicles have been seen leaving their bases in north-eastern Syria All US troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to be relocated to western Iraq, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper confirmed. Mr Esper …

During Turkey's brief ceasefire in northern Syria, Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan House delegation to Jordan to open a dialogue on peace and stability in the Middle East with King Abdullah II. In a statement, Pelosi said it is a "critical time for the…

(AMMAN, Jordan) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a group of American lawmakers on a surprise visit to Jordan to discuss “the deepening crisis” in Syria amid a shaky U.S.-brokered cease-fire. The visit came after bipartisan criticism in Washington has slammed…