By Samir Badran MA’AN, Jordan, 8 March 2012 – On a cold February day, Syrian refugee children and their parents gathered at the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) Centre, a UNICEF partner, in the southern Jordanian town of Ma’an. They are some of the thousands of Syrians who have ...

20 April 2012 – The UN refugee agency today said that one month after the United Nations issued an appeal for $84 million to help Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, only 20 per cent of the funds had been received. “Of the 34 organizations that had appealed for funds under the Syri...

By Taylor Luck RAMTHA/MAFRAQ — Despite a broad smile and a love for football, it is one indistinguishable trait that sets Samer apart from his classmates and made the nine-year-old the most popular kid in school the moment he first took his seat. Samer is Syrian. “All his Jordanian classmate...

Ils sont près de 300 000 à s’être repliés sur l’Egypte pour fuir des combats traumatisants. Leur adaptation à cette nouvelle vie passe par le Haut Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les réfugiés où d’importants soutiens, notamment psychologiques, leur sont apportés. Elle n’a que cinq ans, et po...

Donors channelling funds towards Syrian refugees in Lebanon must also assist their poor Lebanese hosts to diffuse rising tensions, aid workers and a government official said ahead of an international pledging conference for humanitarian aid to Syria and its neighbours. “We have seen a growing sen...

Donor countries have pledged more than $1.5 billion for Syrians displaced by nearly two years of fighting, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, after a donor conference in Kuwait. Ban Ki-moon told the final session of the one-day conference that the meeting has "reached its target" of...

The EU and its member states should continue providing support to respond to the massive Syrian refugee crisis and make sure the funding arrives where it is most needed, said MEPs who met with Syrian refugees in Jordan this week. The delegation also called on Jordan and other neighbouring countries ...

On the 21th of January, 620 Syrian refugees arrived in Port Said after a long boat trip of about 30 hours. Those new comers are part of the 300 000 Syrian refugees in Egypt that escape the shelling and the bad condition of life during the war. In Port Said and Port Fuad, the Syrians get help from a ...

In 6 October City just outside Cairo, a satellite city which is home to one of the largest communities of Syrian refugees in Egypt, rumours quickly spread about how it was easy to find “mostly Islamist” NGOs promoting the marriage of Syrian women to Egyptian men for a small fee. Allegations have ...

A Syrian refugee, once a national player, revives his dream of playing and coaching football.