Turkish Refugee Camp

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…

The International Rescue Committee warned Tuesday of up to 1 billion COVID-19 cases and 3.2 million deaths in 34 countries that are confronting crises or at war, including Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen.  The IRC said an analysis of “potential response scenarios” found COVID-19 could cause between 500 million and 1 billion infections and between 1.7 and 3.2 million fatalities in those…

On a warm April evening in downtown Athens, Greece, Arash Hampay was handing out pink, plastic shopping bags filled with food, soap, hand sanitizer and face masks to refugees and the homeless.It's his way of helping the community fight against the coronavirus.“Just imagine thousands of homeless and refugee families that live…

While the Covid-19 pandemic has killed more than 180,000 people worldwide and infected more than 2.5 million, Syria has officially reported relatively few cases. If the epidemic were to worsen there, the death toll would be all the higher as the country, still under international sanctions, lacks basic medical equipment. Nine…

Photograph: Nabil Mounzer/EPAMedics are scrambling to contain a potential outbreak of Covid-19 in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon after a refugee tested positive for the virus, the first known case in one of the region’s most vulnerable communities.The patient, a woman in her 40s, is being treated at a state-run…

There are over 70 million people worldwide who have been driven from their homes by war and unrest, up to 10 million are packed into refugee camps and informal settlements, and almost none have been tested for the coronavirus. While the relative isolation of many camps may have slowed the…

By the time Turkey invaded northern Syria, in October, the Ain Issa refugee camp—twenty miles south of the Turkish border—resembled a small city. In recent years, some fourteen thousand people had moved there, displaced by ISIS, Russian and American air strikes, or the repressive regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The…

Turkey has pressed on with military campaigns against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria despite the novel coronavirus compounding the troubles of local populations in both conflict-torn countries.Turkey has fought for decades with the insurgent Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that has established positions in neighboring Iraq and Syria.…

Iran Press TV Thursday, 16 April 2020 9:52 AM Turkey has launched a deadly drone strike on a refugee camp in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, drawing angry reactions from Iraqi politicians of different factions, who censured the attack as a violation of the Arab country's sovereignty. The media office…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkish airstrikes targeting members of an outlawed Kurdish rebel group struck a refugee camp in northern Iraq and killed two refugee women, Iraqi authorities said Thursday.The strikes, which took place on Wednesday, were a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, Iraq's Foreign Affairs Ministry said.The strikes on the Makhmour…