Refugees

Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in child refugees displaced by conflict, according to a new study of adolescents affected by the crisis in Syria. While somewhat unexpected, given the high levels of war exposure in Syrian refugees, …

Congress had long ago established annual immigration quotas that discriminated against certain national origins, but White House officials considered even these quotas to be too generous. They brandished an obscure provision of immigration law that excluded v…

Mueller, a resident of Prescott in Arizona, was only 26 when she was killed by the ISIS in Syria The US special forces operation that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named after Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker captured and…

Dawhan (Ethiopia) (AFP) - When Zaid Aregawi learned that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, her first thought was of her brother Alem, who is languishing in jail across the border in Eritrea. He crossed over five months ag…

Kayla Mueller was abducted in 2013 while helping refugees of the Syrian civil war: AP The family of murdered Isis hostage Kayla Mueller say they are grateful for the raid that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic caliphate who repeatedly ra…

The Turkish government has been forcibly deporting refugees to war-torn Syria, two international rights groups have alleged, days after Ankara concluded a cross-border operation partly aimed at creating a so-called "safe zone" to settle millions of refugees l…

For about five months now, Hong Kong citizens have been protesting against Beijings increasingly authoritarian control over their semi-autonomous city. Despite the intensity of their struggle, it seems increasingly likely that eventually, Beijing will use wha…

An Oasis For Refugees?

ATHENS (Reuters) - The United Nations refugees agency UNHCR expressed concern on Thursday about Greek proposals to overhaul laws affecting asylum seekers, saying they could weaken the protection of refugees. Greece has adopted a tougher stance on migration …

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