Almost 2.3 million Syrian refugees have fled horrific and tragic situaton in war-torn country. 76 percent of the current 2.3 million Syrian refugees fleeing "a horrific and tragic situation" in the country are women and children, United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency Turkey Representative Carol Batc...

Please see the new animated film on birth registration launched by UNHCR and Unicef. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/39ape83HiZE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s blog on the huff post entitled “An Urgent Plea for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon”. Read more on the below link.

CAIRO, Dec 24 (KUNA) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Arab League lauded the efforts made by His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in supporting the Syrian refugees. After his meeting with Arab League Chief Dr. Nabil Elaraby, the Regiona...

More than 170 Syrian and Palestinian refugees held since October in Egyptian police stations were released on Tuesday and granted temporary permits to stay in Egypt, a government spokesman said. Egypt tightened its open-door visa policy for Syrians fleeing civil war soon after the army toppled Is...

"We are grateful to Turkey" Ms. Carol Batchelor, UNHCR Turkey Representative, speaking to Al Jazeera, has thanked Turkey for its solid stance vis-a-vis Syrian asylum seekers and reminded that "this is an international responsibility". There are more than 51 million people forced to flee world...

Since 2011, the Syrian conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed countless homes and businesses, forcing Syrians by the thousands to seek refuge in the region. Jordan generously opened its borders to these refugees, who settled in camps established by the United Nations and in north...

Thousands of Syrian refugee women are caught in a "spiral of hardship, isolation and anxiety," widowed or separated from their husbands and struggling to survive, the UN warned on Tuesday. In a new report, the UN agency for refugees UNHCR highlighted the plight of some 145,000 Syrian refugee wome...

ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — A young Syrian salesman stopped into Ahmad Bidawi’s barbershop for a shave the other day. Music wafted on fan-cooled air. Outside, on what has become the main commercial strip here in one of the world’s largest refugee camps, workers steered handcarts packed with lumbe...

AMMAN — Jordan hosts the third largest number of refugees in the world, and the largest refugee community globally when compared with the population, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said Saturday. Ensour noted that the direct cost of hosting hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees on the Kingdom...