Unwelcome Refugees

By Giorgos Christides, Matthias Gebauer, Steffen Lüdke, Peter Müller, Maximilian Popp, Lydia Rosenfelder, Christoph Schult and Wolf Wiedmann-SchmidtThe house belonging to the Arab family is packed with neighbors and friends on this Thursday midday. They have all come to pay their last respects to Mohammed al-Arab. The young man had…

Greek riot police officers walk amid clouds of tear gas near the Turkish-Greek border Clashes have erupted on the Greek-Turkish border with Greek authorities using tear gas and a water cannon to hold back refugees and migrants trying to push through the frontier into Greece. There were also reports of…

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to establish a ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib, following talks in Moscow. Putin and Erdogan announced the ceasefire at a press conference after almost six hours of talks in the Kremlin. Under the deal, Russia and…

Damascus (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of blackmailing Europe by opening its borders to fleeing refugees."Turkey has started to send a second wave of refugees as a form of blackmail to Europe," Assad said in an interview with the Russia…

WHEN President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on February 28th that his government would no longer stop refugees from crossing into Greece, Nabila’s parents packed her and her five siblings onto a bus, left their house in the Turkish town of Tokat and headed west. The 12-year-old Afghan refugee had no…

Once again, Europe is failing in its duties towards refugees. The latest episode is the decision of Turkey’s President Erdoğan to permit and even to encourage thousands of people to cross into Greece in order to pressure the EU to do more to support Turkey in its conflict with Russia…

By Vladimir Soldatkin and Maria KiselyovaMOSCOW (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia agreed a ceasefire deal on Thursday in Syria's Idlib region, their two leaders said after talks in Moscow to contain a conflict which has displaced nearly a million people in three months.Russian President Vladimir Putin, standing next to his…

New Delhi: The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which approached the Supreme Court to be made amicus curiae in a case that has challenged the validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act, has a history of filing such petitions in various courts worldwide, including Europe and the…

European Union countries offered more money for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syria's Idlib, but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of refugees and migrants. EU interior ministers met in Brussels on Wednesday for emergency talks, to be…

The German government anxious about the political consequences of a repeat of 2015 is tolerating Greeces decision to suspend asylum claims at its borders and has launched a social media campaign to deter Syrian refugees from embarking on a journey to central … Read More