There are around 127,000 Syrian refugees registered with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and more than 50,000 African and Iraqi refugees in Egypt, says UNHCR Senior External Relations and Communications Officer Ragnhild Ek. Most of Syrian refugees are concentrated in Greater Ca...

n an unfinished building on the outskirts of Cairo that echoes with the clatter of construction, a Syrian instructor walks a class of young refugees through a poetry lesson in the dialect of their war-torn country, hoping to instill knowledge and a sense of community far from home. "When a Syrian...

Their arrest by Egypt's coastguard and 12 days in detention under the searing heat have not sapped the determination of young Syrian Suad and her brother: They will get to Europe, whatever the risk. "When the coastguards arrested us they opened fire. An Egyptian man was wounded," says 18-year-old S...

Geneva, 17 November 2015 BRIEFER: Melissa Fleming, UNHCR Chief Spokesperson This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should...

World | Wed Nov 4, 2015 12:26pm EST Related: WORLD, GREECE, MIGRANT CRISIS Greece carries out first relocation of refugees to Luxembourg ATHENS | BY MICHELE KAMBAS Greece relocated six asylum-seeking families to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first such transfer from its soil under an European Un...

European Commission - Press release Meeting on the Western Balkans Migration Route: Leaders Agree on 17-point plan of action Brussels, 25 October 2015 Meeting on the Western Balkans Migration Route: Leaders Agree on 17-point plan of action The past weeks have shown that the challenges curr...

Geneva, 22 December 2015 Joint UNHCR, IOM Press Release A million refugees and migrants flee to Europe in 2015 Persecution, conflict and poverty have forced an unprecedented one million people to flee to Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the Internationa...

The Year When Syria's Problems Came to Europe 12 DEC 22, 2015 12:23 PM EST By Noah Feldman Middle Easterners sometimes observe wryly that although the West causes some of their region’s problems, Westerners don’t have to suffer the consequences. In 2015, that observation ceased to be valid,...

ISTANBUL — At Pages, a bookstore and cafe in a three-story wooden house in a tidy cul-de-sac up a hill in this city’s oldest quarter, a literary refuge has blossomed for young Arabs in exile — mainly Syrians but also Iraqis, Libyans and Yemenis who have fled the troubles of home and taken up residen...

Syrian refugees facing their first Christmas in Wales are sure to get a "warm Welsh welcome", the first minister has said. Carwyn Jones said Wales had a "proud tradition of being a friendly and hospitable nation". "The message of peace and hope is particularly poignant this year," he said, ref...