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Scenes of Normality Mixed with Tragedy in Zaatari
Syrian refugees walk amongst UNHCR tents at the Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, on August 6. (AFP PHOTO) Zaatari, Asharq Al-Awsat—The old woman,...
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Saudi Arabia and Yemen Face People Smuggling Problem
Police troopers search cars in Sanaa March 15, 2013. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah) Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—A prevalent problem in the United States and many European countries is increasingly occupying the...
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UN Funds for Syrian Refugees Running Out
A woman and child at Zaatari refugee camp, near Mafraq, Jordan, in December 2012. UN Photo/Mark Garten London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Funds for United Nations efforts to assist refugees from the fighting in...
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UN Refugee Chief: Syria Crisis Could Be Worst Ever
An internally displaced Syrian girl stands near tents in the Maiber al-Salam refugee camp along the Turkish border in the northern province of Aleppo on April 17, 2013. London, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the...
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UN issues largest ever humanitarian appeal for Syria
António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) informs about the launch of the regional response plan for Syrian refugees and the Syrian humanitarian assistance response plan during a...
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Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon escalates as UN seeks solutions
In this picture taken on January 7, 2013, Syrian refugee men stop water from entering their tents at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj, near the border with Syria. (AP...
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Barzani calls on Syrian Kurds to stay and fight
Syrian refugees cross the border into the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on August 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Azad Lashkari)Erbil and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan Regional Government in...
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UN: Syrian refugees exceed 2 million
A refugee camp seen in the Syrian territory near Cilvegozu Turkish border, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The number of Syrians who have fled abroad has now...
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Egypt continues crackdown on Brotherhood
Muslim brotherhood members and ousted president Mohamed Mursi supporters light up flares during a demonstration against the military backed government on September 10, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt....
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UN predicts 4 million Syrians displaced in 2014
Syrian refugees spend time in their makeshift tents in central Ankara on October 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Umit Bektas)Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat—A report from the United Nations has predicted that 2 million...
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Jordan’s Sixth Refugee Camp
A new Syrian refugee family shops in a market after receiving their humanitarian aid shopping vouchers at the new Azraq Syrian refugee camp near Al-Azraq, east of Amman, on April 30, 2014....
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Lebanese government to bolster efforts to control refugee flow, says minister
Yehia, left, the millionth Syrian refugee in Lebanon, arrives to register at a UNHCR registration center, after fleeing from Yabrud, in the northern port city of Tripoli on April 3, 2014. (AFP...
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UN: Number of world’s displaced over 50 million
Syrian refugee children stand outside their tent at a refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Majdal Anjar, Lebanon on Thursday June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Beirut, AP—For the first...
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Activists urge UN to support Iraqi refugees in Kurdistan
Displaced Iraqis forced to flee their homes ahead of gains made by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in and around Mosul, shelter at the Bahrka Refugee camp, Erbil, northern Iraq, on...
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Arsal’s Syrian refugees suffer amid floods and snow
A volunteer from a Lebanese NGO distributes bread to Syrian refugees at the Al-Amaan camp in Arsal, Lebanon, on October 26, 2014. (AFP Photo/Maya Hautefueille) Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Having already...
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UN refugee chief: The world doesn’t understand the extent of the refugee crisis
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres gestures during a news conference at the launch of the Global Humanitarian appeal for 2015 at the UN European headquarters in Geneva on...
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UN: At least 300 migrants missing in new sea tragedy
A migrant who survived a shipwreck is helped as he arrives with others at the Lampedusa harbor on February 11, 2015. (Reuters/Antonio Parrinello) Rome, AP—Some 300 migrants who tried to cross the...
View ArticleUNHCR to Seek More Resources for Turkey
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT. ISTANBUL – The United Nations’ refugee agency will seek additional resources for Turkey, the world’s largest host of refugees, and … continue reading UNHCR to Seek More Resources...
View ArticleAsharq Al-Awsat at the Zaatari Refugee Camp and Eyewitness Accounts of the...
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT. A 26 year old man called Abdul Rahman Mohammed Mahmoud who fled bombing carried out by the Assad regime in … continue reading Asharq Al-Awsat at the Zaatari Refugee Camp and...
View ArticleU.S.-led Coalition Kills ISIS Leader in Fallujah as Hundreds Flee
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT. Ramadi- Baghdad-based Colonel Steve Warren has announced that the leader of ISIS in the Iraqi city of Fallujah was killed … continue reading U.S.-led Coalition Kills ISIS Leader...
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