refugee crisis

Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said his country is ready to receive 500 people

Amnesty International accused Turkey of illegally forcing groups of some one hundred Syrians a day to return home

The British charity called on wealthy countries to resettle at least 10 percent of the 4.8 million Syrian refugees

Filippo Grandi said the world must do more to end the refugee crisis

Greek authorities say there are some 12,000 people in the camp

If the pact with Turkey goes through as conceived, the EU will be retreating into a 'fortress Europe' policy

Five migrants, hoping to reach Europe, drowned when their speedboat capsized off the Turkish coast.

Weekly Die Zeit says 'Submission' describes how a pre-modern Muslim ideology turns Western society upside down

Greece is expected to receive 100,000 refugees by the end of March

The heartbreaking portraits reveal a true sense of life during the four-year-long war in Syria

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Turkey and Germany would ask NATO to help police the Turkish coast

Four people were rescued both by air and by sea in a search and rescue operation by the Turkish coastguard

European governments respond to fears of terrorism and an influx of Muslim refugees

The US State Department says the aim would be to obtain an increase in funding from $10 billion

The coastguard say a helicopter and three boats were still searching for others

Abu Ziad's story of his dented, decades-old pickup truck which has been his sole source of income and also his home

Germany is the favoured destination for hundreds of refugees fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East

The over-sized boat capsized on the way to the Greek island of Lesbos

The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi has made a Christmas appeal to the world

The estimated figure includes 20.2 million refugees fleeing wars and persecution, the most since 1992

With the refugee crisis at its peak, Pakistanis hop on the bandwagon of asylum-seekers

It should be recognised that Western governments are not suspicious of all Syrian refugees

Britain's parliament looks set to vote in favour of joining the bombing campaign against IS in Syria on Wednesday

Muslims now outnumber non-Muslims in Hamtramck, a city which was once made up of 90 per cent Polish Catholic

Refugee groups say Carson's comments on Syrian refugee camp in Jordan underestimated the scope of a global crisis

The UN condemned new restrictions on refugees that have left around 1,000 migrants stuck

28-nation bloc to appoint immigration officer to address Pakistan’s concerns

The project offers a 360-degree window into the war-torn city

UN told it is wrong to spread Islamophobia after the Paris attacks

Dr Maleeha Lodhi says foreign intervention begets more chaos and violence

Republican leaders introduced legislation requiring assurances of more robust background checks and vetting

They are the latest of nearly 3,500 deaths at sea among people making desperate bids to flee war and reach Europe

The top ten nationalities of Mediterranean Sea arrivals also include Pakistan (2%)

Former goalkeeper for the national team was not impressed by fans using national jersey as protest regalia

The UN, Germany, and Europe as a whole, have been hailed as the saviours of refugees

The civil war in Syria, an unwanted product of the Arab Spring, has been going on since 2011

A Hungarian news website has identified the man as Osama Al-Ghabad, a former Syrian football coach

The coastguard located and rescued 24 people from the vessel in the eastern Aegean Sea early on Saturday

Like Britain and Ireland, Denmark has an opt-out on the EU's asylum policies

Obama had asked staff to “scale up” the number of refugee admissions from around 1,500 in this fiscal year, to 10,000

Dr Maleeha Lodhi says half of the world’s refugees are children

Since the beginning of the year, 350,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe

Hungarian premier says discussion of quotas for distributing migrants between 28-nation bloc members are premature

More than four million Syrians fled their country, very few if any refugees have been officially accepted by the Gulf