Unwelcome Refugees

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe's anti-migrant militarisation of its borders is creating huge profits for the big businesses building new barriers across the continent. A new report  identifies three arms firms Thales, Airbus and Leona…

The restrictions the EU and the US imposed against Syria initially targeted ordinary Syrians so that they would blame the government for their woes and eventually rebel, President Assad told RT’s Afshin Rattansi. Now, as the West has kept renewing the sanctio…

England will face no racist abuse when they face Kosovo in a European Qualifier next week, says the president of the country’s football association. England players were targeted for abuse in Sofia last month, with the Bulgarian federation ordered to play th…

Turkey will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, adding that Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish fighters until they have entirely left the region. Turkey launched its third mili…

West Virginia University geographers are linking the political and human rights issues at borders today to the legacies of foreign and domestic policy across the globe since World War I. Karen Culcasi and Cynthia Gorman, of the Department of Geology and Geog…

MILAN Now its impeachment. To many of the worlds ordinary citizens, not well versed in American constitutional procedures, it means one thing only: Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, is accused of serious foul play. Pressuring the Ukrainian pr…

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again used the millions of refugees hosted in the country as a bargaining chip against the European Union.Speaking alongside Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban on Thursday (7 November), he told reporters the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a visit to EU member Hungary repeated his threat Thursday to "open the gates" for millions of refugees eager to flee to Europe unless more international support was provided. Erdogan held talks with Hungarian nationa…

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. PHOTO: AFP BUDAPEST: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday repeated his threat to “open the gates” for migrants to enter Europe unless more international support was provided, during a visit to Hungary …

The European Union has paid three billion euros to Turkey under a 2016 deal to contain the influx of refugees to Europe. Ankara has repeatedly complained about the slow pace of disbursements, threatening to let migrants cross through its territory. Turkey w…