When Thuy Nguyen first greeted the anxious Syrian family at Toronto airport in January 2016, their meeting triggered a wave of memories. “It was very emotional,” says Thuy, 53. “I could empathize with ...

GENEVA, Dec 11 (UNHCR) - The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed news of the arrival in Canada last night of the first group of Syrian refugees under a recently announced humanitarian programme. The ...

The private sponsorship of refugees is a proud Canadian innovation that has helped hundreds of thousands of people in danger build new lives here over the last 46 years. Despite those decades of ...

Nearly a decade since Syria's war began, neighbouring Lebanon still hosts some 1 million registered Syrian refugees for whom life has only become more difficult since an economic crisis erupted last ...

It’s been nearly a full decade since the photograph of a dead refugee child on a Turkish beach caused the world to stop in its tracks and focus its fleeting attention on the 21st century’s most ...

A long-running conflict between two Syrian refugee families in Kelowna's Rutland area was back in court last week, following ...

Many are the sole breadwinners for families seeking to escape ISIS and terrorism — -- At 6 a.m., just three short miles from the Syrian border, Hadija, 10, is awakened. She gets dressed and ...

In the six months since Bashar al-Assad was deposed as the country's dictator, refugees have been returning in their thousands to Syria. Over the course of the nearly 15-year civil war, more than 13.5 ...

Now that spring has arrived in the Middle East, Syria’s estimated 1.2 million refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan can hope for relief from the snow, the rain and the bitterly cold nights of winter.

Duha Ali, a dedicated nurse at IRC's clinic in Za'atari refugee camp, provides vital healthcare to Syrian refugees while inspiring hope in the community of 75,000. Jordan is home to the world's ...

The campaign marks the 5th anniversary of the Syrian war. — -- When Gunter Nitsch was 11 years old, the only thoughts on his mind were feeding his hunger and keeping warm. In 1949, he and his ...