Refugees

Iranians arrive in Turkey through border gate as crackdown persists

The US issues a warning for citizens to evacuate Iran as protests intensify, with many Iranians seeking refuge in Turkey, crossing the Kapikoy border gate into Van Province.

People stand at the Kapikoy Border Gate, between Turkey and Iran, in Van province, Turkey, January 14, 2026.
(From L-R) IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Tamir Yadai at a meeting discussing West Bank counterterror, December 31, 2025.

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President of Iraq, Barham Salih, speaks during the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, US September 23, 2021.

United Nations General Assembly elects former Iraqi President to lead UN refugee agency

Asha Kano Kavi, an internally displaced woman from Kadugli, serves wild boiled leaves for food to orphaned children at the Bruam IDP Camp within the Sudan's People Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) controlled area in Tobo County in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan June 22, 2024

Over 1,000 civilians killed, third summarily executed in Sudan's Darfur when RSF seized camp - UN


Ruach Hadash: Volunteer clinic in Haifa serves asylum-seeking refugees

The project is the brainchild of the Technion Faculty of Medicine as a means of teaching medical students a more holistic approach to treating patients.

 Artie Jacobowitz, a volunteer biomedical equipment engineer.

Australia lawmaker calls opposition leader racist over opposition to Gaza refugees

Independent parliamentarian Zali Steggall made the remarks during a speech criticizing center-right Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton for his call this week to bar refugees from Gaza.

 Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton reacts during a motion to suspend standing orders in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, August 15, 2024.

The war on Syrian Kurds and the little-known axis of ethnic cleansing - opinion

Local and global rights groups have raised alarms about these crimes, but the perpetrators continue their campaign, unrestrained by the international community. 

 Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) gather to celebrate Nowruz, which marks the arrival of spring, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2024.

Floods and famine overwhelm Sudan's largest refugee camp

Researchers found that brown floodwaters have submerged "toilets and nine out of 13 water points" in the Zamzam camp,

 udanese woman rests inside a shelter at Zamzam camp, in North Darfur, Sudan, August 1, 2024.

Syrian human smuggler has refugee status claim rejected by German court

After being denied status, the man appealed to the Higher Administrative Court, who ruled that the situation in Hasaka, where he is from, posed no personal danger to him.

 Turkey-Syria Barrier, on the left is the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES).

Now is a unique opportunity for UNRWA to change, Israel should take it - opinion

The problems with UNRWA are not a new revelation: Even before the war, laws were proposed to limit it, and these are proceeding through the legislative channels.

 JORDAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER Ayman Safadi (right) meets with UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, in Amman, last week. In 1949, when Israel supported the establishment of UNRWA, it was supposed to fulfill its goal and disband.

UNRWA is not an aid agency, it is more like an illegal drug dealer: It must be replaced - opinion

Such an agency has no justification to be part of the UN system, nor to be supported by anyone, definitely not by the taxpayers of democracies.

 UNHCR CHIEF Filippo Grandi: The UNHCR is much more competent than UNRWA in confronting the problem of refugees and settling them, says the writer.

Complex landscape awaits Gazan evacuees in Cairo

Around 100,000 Palestinians were able to evacuate Gaza and go into Egypt. However, Egypt’s notorious bureaucracy and severe economic crisis challenged the recent arrivals.

 Children sit on top of belongings, as Palestinians prepare to evacuate, after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of Rafah, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip earlier this year..

Canada pledges more visas for Gazans, says it's 'horrified' by Israeli airstrike in Rafah

A spokesperson for Immigration Minister Marc Miller said 448 Gazans had been issued a temporary visa, including 254 under a policy not related to the special visa program.

Palestinians search for food among burnt debris in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024.

US demands halt to weapon supplies amid looming crisis in Sudan

Two million Sudanese civilians live in El Fasher, and another 500,000 internally displaced refugees have sought safety in the city.  

 A Sudanese family who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, sit beside their belongings while waiting to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, July 26, 2023.