Refugees

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…

(Adds details) By Ruma Paul DHAKA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Bangladesh will start relocating Rohingya Muslims to a flood-prone island off its coast next month as several thousand refugees have agreed to move, a government official said on Sunday. Dhaka wants to …

Right after Justin Trudeau led the Liberals to a strong victory in the 2015 federal election, he declared that he would also guide Canada back to its rightful place on the global stage in the aftermath of a decade under the Conservatives. To this countrys fr…

(Adds more details, background) By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior members of Congress held talks in Jordan on Saturday with King Abdullah II and other top Jordanian officials. Pelosi said in…

The ceasefire in Syria has not stopped people from paying smugglers to get them to safety. More than 700 have crossed the border into Iraq overnight. And the United Nations says more than 3,000 have arrived there this week. Its team has been sent to a hast…

Delil Douleiman/Getty On Thursday night at his rally in Texas, Donald Trump finally admitted why he greenlit the Turkish military to cross the border into northern Syria to attack the Kurds: He wanted these two groups of Muslims to slaughter each other. As T…

Key point:Ankara wants to achieve all of its objectives despite the risks. The Turkish military is moving into Syria's northeast as Ankara chases its strategy of expanding a buffer space between Turkey and Syria's civil war. But while Turkey will succeed in …

U.S. Customs and Border Protectionone of the arms of the federal immigration machine shoving tens of thousands of people into de facto concentration campsis eyeing equipping officers with facial recognition body cams, according to Reuters. Reuters wrote that…

President Donald Trump compared Turkey attacking the Kurds to "two kids in a lot," saying that "you have to let them fight, and then you pull them apart." The president hosted a rally in Dallas, Texas, the first since the House of Representatives voted in fa…