ANKARA (Reuters) - Countries around the world must do more to help Syria's neighbours cope with the millions of people who have fled the civil war, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Over 3 million Syrians have arrived in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq durin...

Speaking at the "Seventh Annual Ambassadors Conference", UN's top refugee official applauded Turkey's hospitality toward Syrian refugees. Turkey plays an extremely important role in the protection of refugees, the UN's top refugee official said Tuesday. Addressing the "Seventh Annual Ambassadors C...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said that Turkey plays an important role in sheltering Syrian refugees who fled from the civil war. Guterres delivered a speech on Tuesday at the seventh annual Ambassadors' Conference in Ankara, which is organized by the Turkish foreign ministry a...

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt has been commemorating World Refugee Day with Syrian refugees in Turkey, which has overtaken Pakistan to become the world's largest refugee-hosting nation with more than 1.77 million in urban areas and government-run camps. The Special Envoy and UN High Com...

Fifteen years into a millennium that many of us hoped would see an end to war, a spreading global violence has come to threaten the very foundations of our international system. More people fled last year than at any other time in our records. Around the world, almost 60 million have been displac...

A first UNHCR aid flight for the surge of refugees fleeing northern Syria landed in Adana, Turkey, this morning at 9.15 local time. The A310 plane from Amman is the first of eight flights, and is part of a huge operation to bring in aid by land, sea and air for up to 200,000 refugees from UNHCR's...

UNHCR is stepping up its response to help the Government of Turkey come to the aid of an estimated 70,000 Syrians who crossed into Turkey, many in the past 24 hours. Turkish government authorities and UNHCR are preparing for the possibility of hundreds of thousands more refugees arriving over the co...

17 January 2014, Harran-Kökenli camp, Turkey – Government ministers and senior representatives from Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt together with UNHCR today appealed to the international community to boost solidarity with countries in the region that are hosting the majority of refugees fle...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 25 September 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Additional Speaker: Amin Awad, Director UNHCR Bureau for Middle East & N.Africa / Regional Refugee Co...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 16 June 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. New fighting in northern Syria has seen 23,135 refugees fleeing across the border into Turkey's Sanliurf...