Turkish Refugee Camp

A refugee camp near Idlib in northern Syria.ReutersThe Turkish armed forces are losing a battle with Russian-backed Syrian troops over a safe zone full of refugees in northern Syria.If Syria takes Idlib permanently, about 1 million refugees will be forced out in the direction of Turkey.Turkey has already taken in…

Lesbos, Greece - Following protests staged this month both by Lesbos residents and refugees and migrants against conditions at the infamous Moria refugee camp, NGOs on the Greek island are suffering increased hostility from local groups.  Accounts reported to Al Jazeera by aid workers include harassment, intimidation and, in some cases,…

Chios, Greece - Sabr al-Kolak knew his first few months in Europe would be difficult, but he was not prepared for what he found in Vial, a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios, in the North Aegean Sea. A 30-year-old from Palestine's Gaza Strip, he arrived at the beginning…

The United Nations has called for “decisive action” to rectify unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, as well as at refugee centers on four other islands, amid rising concerns about disease outbreak in the ca…

Qaminas (Syria) (AFP) - Tensions escalated Tuesday between Syria's regime and rebel-backer Turkey as a Syrian military helicopter was shot down and Ankara warned of a "heavy price" for any attacks on its forces.The new flare-up, a day after regime shelling killed five Turkish troops, came as government forces battling…

Nicosia (AFP) - "Love, we have no aim but to be defeated in your wars," wrote the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish. Despite the armed conflicts devastating the Middle East, occasionally love comes out victorious.From the battlefields of Syria to the ruined cities of Yemen, journalists bear witness to violence and…

Struggling to stop the migration flows to Lesbos, the Greek government is now declaring war on NGOs, accusing them of stoking unrest between locals and refugees. Officials say they're sitting on a powder keg. When night falls, the lights shine brightly in the farming village of Moria. Police banter drifts…

He reached his family’s old property, in a field with a view of the sea and snowcapped mountains, and stood above a shin-high rectangle of stone. It was all that remained of the home where his parents took refuge during World War II. The migrants had taken the wooden walls,…

By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 8, 2020 10:17:05 am Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. (Reuters Photo:…

Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who fled to Syria to become an Isil bride, has failed in the first stage of her legal battle to have her British citizenship restored. The 20-year-old left the UK when she was 15 with two other friends, marrying a Dutch fighter with whom she…