Syrian refugees

Britain announces largest asylum policy overhaul in modern times

As part of the changes, the statutory duty to provide support to certain asylum seekers, including housing and weekly allowances, will be revoked, the Home Office said in a statement.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood visit Peacehaven Mosque in Peacehaven, United Kingdom, on October 23, 2025.
 Tent CEO Gideon Maltz, winner of the 2025 Charles Bronfman Prize, at his office in New York.

This Jewish humanitarian is connecting refugees to jobs as a win-win for employers and refugees.

 A Syrian, Ahmed al-Akhras, works at his car spare parts shop, in Cairo, Egypt December 12, 2024.

Uncertainty clouds fate of Syrians in Egypt after Assad ouster

 SYRIAN DEMONSTRATORS call for international help against President Bashar Assad, in Kafranbel, Idlib province, 2011. The civil war, beginning in 2011, unleashed one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history, destroying the country Assad claimed to protect, says the writer.

Syria’s freedom reveals the depth of activist double standards - opinion


Jordanian official: Economy buckling under burden of Syrian refugees

Influx of people fleeing lengthy civil war has affected government expenditures, personal incomes and trade with neighboring nations.

Syrian refugee kids play on a rubble of dismantled concrete huts at a makeshift Syrian refugee camp in the Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon

Refugees call on world to stop Turkey’s airstrikes in Syria

Fearful of having their heads crushed, or being dragged to death, more than 200,000 people have fled the war made possible by the US decision to withdraw.

People sit on belongings at a back of a truck as they flee Ras al Ain town, Syria

Syrian refugee persuaded Palestinian to murder German 'Jew'

Albakr then said "Riecher has no one. We have the right to take the money away from him," according to Ahmad.

Palestinian Iyad Bayatneh (right) who is suspected of killing a German, and Haitham Ahmad and

Syrian refugees in Egypt struggle to live as economic hardships deepen

More than 77 percent of Syrian families in Egypt were in debt in 2017, up from 73 percent the year before, according to unpublished data seen by Reuters from a UNHCR survey.

Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Khatib cleans his auto rickshaw as his wife Ilham Mohammad watches, outside their home in Cairo, Egypt April 8, 2019

'I need a blanket': winter storm batters Lebanese refugee camps

More than a million Syrians are stuck in destitute conditions in Lebanon.

A Syrian refugee boy stands in front of his family tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

Syrian refugee baby returns to Israel for second life-saving operation

The baby , the child of Syrian refugees living in Cyprus, will be back in Israel today for a scheduled procedure.

A special medically-equipped plane brings a Syrian refugee baby to Israel from Cyprus, December 22, 2017

Report: Syrian migrant in Germany arrested for planning attack in Israel

A German police spokesman confirmed that a Syrian migrant was arrested, but did not confirm the rest of the report.

German police gather near Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, Germany, June 6, 2018.

Idlib waits between massacre and diplomatic solution

The big question is, what will be the future of millions of innocent people who live in Idlib and depend on the diplomatic maneuvers of Moscow, Ankara and Tehran?

A child waits in a bus, evacuating fighters and civilians from the two besieged Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya in the mainly rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib, to cross to Turkey from the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Bab al-Hawa, December 28, 2015. Under the deal, the fighters fro

Russia says U.S. refusal to rebuild Syria a ploy to slow refugee return

According to the U.N.’s refugee agency, nearly 5.5 million Syrians have fled abroad to escape the country's war.

SYRIAN SOLDIERS walk past damaged buildings in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus on May 22.

Syrian refugees find safe haven but no secure future on Greek island

"I'm here to start a new life until the war is over. If things are sorted out, I will go back to Syria."

A Syrian refugee boy stands in front of his family tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis