refugees

President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to dramatically raise the cap on refugees permitted to enter the United States, even above the number during the last year of the Obama ...

PIRAEUS, Greece—Greek authorities have prevented thousands of migrants from entering Greece clandestinely by sea this year despite a ...

Australia has suspended its extradition agreement with Hong Kong and extended a hand to help Hong Kong residents ...

ANKARA—Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last ...

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov met with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Turkey, on March 2, ...

A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration executive order that allows states and local governments to refuse ...

Greece said on Nov. 22 it's deploying more border guards to “shut the door” to migrants not entitled ...

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has pounced on the case of a Burmese asylum seeker accused of child molestation, ...

SYDNEY—Australia's military intercepted a Sri Lankan boat carrying 13 migrants last month, Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton ...

OTTAWA—The United Nations Refugee Agency says Canada admitted the largest number of resettled refugees last year and had ...

In Kenya, most of the refugees in the Kakuma camp are from South Sudan, Africa’s youngest war-torn nation, ...

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grande, on Oct. 07 said that Colombia was responding to a ...

Europe's anti-fraud watchdog is investigating the possible misuse of EU funds earmarked to provide food for refugees.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northeastern Nigeria, residents and ...

MADRID—Spain will not tolerate violent attempts to enter the country, the government said on Aug. 29, in response ...

ANKARA–Turkish authorities will deport close to 600 illegal Afghan asylum seekers in eastern Turkey back to Kabul this ...

The administration of President Donald Trump is on pace to cut refugee admissions by more than three quarters ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has curtailed refugee admissions for fiscal year 2018 to 45,000. This is a 47 percent ...

Former vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, a U.S. Senator, was lambasted for comments he made following the Ohio ...

An Afghan woman whose image became known around the world after she was featured on the cover of ...

The Swiss village Oberwil-Lieli has voted to accept a fine of nearly $300,000 rather than host 10 refugees. ...

Angelina Jolie, special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, explained her hopes that world countries will ...

The Syrian civil war has forced more than 13.5 million Syrians to flee their homes. Approximately 4.8 million ...

MORIA, Greece—Pope Francis made a gesture Saturday of welcoming refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter ...

The first Syrian family under the surge resettlement program arrived to Kansas City, Missouri on April 6.

Just days after German officials started passing out etiquette leaflets to migrants following a series of sexual assaults ...

Outside Maher al-Masihi's rooms in the Arctic city of Murmansk, the snow is deep and the temperature far ...