Syrian refugees

Britain announces largest asylum policy overhaul in modern times

As part of the changes, the statutory duty to provide support to certain asylum seekers, including housing and weekly allowances, will be revoked, the Home Office said in a statement.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood visit Peacehaven Mosque in Peacehaven, United Kingdom, on October 23, 2025.
 Tent CEO Gideon Maltz, winner of the 2025 Charles Bronfman Prize, at his office in New York.

This Jewish humanitarian is connecting refugees to jobs as a win-win for employers and refugees.

 A Syrian, Ahmed al-Akhras, works at his car spare parts shop, in Cairo, Egypt December 12, 2024.

Uncertainty clouds fate of Syrians in Egypt after Assad ouster

 SYRIAN DEMONSTRATORS call for international help against President Bashar Assad, in Kafranbel, Idlib province, 2011. The civil war, beginning in 2011, unleashed one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history, destroying the country Assad claimed to protect, says the writer.

Syria’s freedom reveals the depth of activist double standards - opinion


Corbyn: Labour government will recognize state of Palestine

"The next Labour government will recognise Palestine as a state as one step towards a genuine two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict," Corbyn wrote on Twitter during a visit to Jordan.

Britain's opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn during his visit to Al Zaatari refugee camp, in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, June 22, 2018

Syria tells Lebanon it wants refugees to return

Lebanon is hosting some 1 million registered Syrian refugees.

A Syrian refugee child plays in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 28, 2018.

Terra Incognita: The EU should have come up with a migration policy two decades ago

The problem is 30 years of inaction, ossified structures and unwillingness to take responsibility and manage social problems, and address the needs of average people and immigrants along the way.

A Syrian refugee boy stands in front of his family tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

Lebanon working for return of thousands of Syrian refugees

"The stay of Syrians in Lebanon will not go on for a long time. There is intensive work by the political authority."

A Syrian refugee boy stands in front of his family tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece (REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

Antisemitic assaults drive Amsterdam kosher eatery to close shop

In December, a 29-year-old Syrian asylum seeker smashed the restaurant’s window while holding a Palestinian flag.

The damaged storefront of kosher Jewish restaurant HaCarmel in Amsterdam. A man, shown holding a Palestinian flag in video footage released on local media sites, smashed the windows of the restaurant

Assad gives a video tour of war-torn Ghouta

The United Nations has estimated 400,000 people were under siege in eastern Ghouta, the last large rebel bastion near the capital Damascus, with little access to food or medicine.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as seen in Damascus, Syria November 14, 2017.

Berlin's children pile up teddy bears in solidarity with Syrian refugees

The children helped lay 740 teddies on the steps of Berlin's Konzerthaus, each one representing 1,000 Syrian refugees denied an education.

Berlin school pupils set up 740 teddy bears in front at of the concert hall Konzerthaus during an event of the World Vision Organisation to make aware of 740,000 Syrian refugee children who can't attend the school, in Berlin, Germany, March 15, 2018

Syrian Observatory says war has killed more than half a million

About 85 percent of the dead were civilians killed by the forces of the Syrian government and its allies.

A man holds a child after an airstrike in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria February 7, 2018.

Israel's Opposition leader: We must defend our values in Syria

As a Jewish state, we must raise our eyes beyond our immediate borders and interests, and recognize the humanitarian and not only strategic dimensions of the Syrian conflict.

REFUGEES FROM Syria sit next to a camp in Jordan.

False identity: The Jewish-Israeli reporter who went undercover as a sheikh

Journalist Zvi Yehezkeli feared for his life, tells The Jerusalem Post his biggest revelations on the Muslim Brotherhood were in the US.

Zvi Yehezkeli undercover as Sheikh Abu Hamza