Refugees

Two years ago this month, a US-led military coalition declared victory against ISIS in Mosul, liberating one of Iraq's largest cities after three years of occupation by the radical Islamist group. While the eastern part of the city is on the road to recovery,…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a "safe third country" for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Jimmy Morales is set to meet Monday in Washingto…

Democratic attitudes toward refugees have grown substantially more welcoming in the past four years, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. In a 2015 poll taken after President Barack Obama proposed admitting more Syrian refugees, Democrats were split on what t…

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warrens new immigration plan would decriminalize migration, making it a civil rather than criminal violation, following the lead of a plan by former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. Unveiled in a Medium post…

From where Johnny Grahn sits, Sweden is already helping too much. A bus driver by profession, he occupies a seat on the Filipstad government council, representing the Sweden Democrats. His face tightens at mention of the refugees. As he describes it, they ha…

By Bryan Pietsch WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan asylum seeker left some members of a U.S. House panel visibly shaken on Wednesday with the story of her daughter's death, saying the toddler had contracted a deadly lung infection during a 20-day …

In the 1980s, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported El Salvadors military-led government in a civil war against various leftist groups. The governments atrocities have been well documented, and tens of thousands of Salvadorans died. Hundreds…

In the past four years, Greece has been hit by a migrant crisis that brought an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and other countries across its borders. After a crackdown at internal European borders to prevent asylum seekers from reach…

She was a high-flying international human rights lawyer who worked with refugees. Then she was found dead on a beach in East Sussex. What happened in-between is a story of crime and punishment, and a question of how justice works in the social media era. Sim…

Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on Myanmar, pictured on March 11. Denis Balibouse/Reuters Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on Myanmar, said security forces and rebels are committing human rights violations and possible new war cri…