Israeli strike in south Lebanon kills 10, injures five, state news agency says
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Around 10 people were killed, including two children, and five were wounded by an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the city of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, state news agency NNA said on Saturday. The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA said, adding that a final toll of the strike would […]
My Mission: Its move from Bethlehem to Jordan complete, Love Into Action resumes mission to aid disabled
DAOUD KUTTAB, of Religion News Service, reports that Laurence and Sharon Garnett chose their new home to help underserved Bedouins and Syrian refugees…
Syrians feel growing pressure from Turkey’s anti-migrant political wave
Istanbul, Turkey Reuters Anti-migrant sentiment, economic woes and political pressures are leading some of the 3.3 millions Syrians living in Turkey to plan a return to Syria or seek shelter in Europe, according to migrants interviewed by Reuters. They are concerned that rhetoric against migrants may rear up in campaigning for March local elections, echoing […]
Libya floods sweep away migrants, and their hopes
Derna/Benghazi, Libya Reuters The small first-floor apartment in Derna became home away from home to Syrian migrant Ammar Kanaan, after the risk of drowning kept him from attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe that has cost the lives of so many. After fleeing Syria two years ago to avoid military service, Kanaan had found […]
Children among 547 detained Syrians declared dead – rights monitor
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Ever since Yehya Hijazi and his two sons were detained in 2012 by the Syrian Government, their relatives had clung onto the hope they were still alive and might be released one day. But after a decade of silence from the authorities, their hopes were shattered when the independent Syrian Network for […]
Number of people illegally in EU grew 22 per cent in 2021 – Eurostat
Reuters The number of people found to be illegally present in the European Union increased by 22 per cent to reach nearly 700,000 in 2021, according to European statistics office data released on Thursday. Syrians made up the largest number, followed by Algerians and Afghans. The number of Afghans increased by about 55 per cent […]
“It’s all lies”; migrants stuck at Polish border feel cheated by people smugglers
Orla/Bialystok, Poland Reuters Syrian friends Anas Kanaan, 34, and Mouein al-Hadi, 36, were told by people smugglers that they would easily be able to get to Germany from Belarus. They just had to pay €3,000 each to an intermediary in Turkey. But the safe crossings from Belarus to Poland indicated by the smugglers were closed […]
Syrians fleeing war allowed to stay longer in the United States
Reuters US President Donald Trump’s administration will allow about 7,000 Syrians who have fled war in their country to stay 18 months longer in the United States, extending them a temporary protection on Thursday it has tried to deny to other migrants. The United States grants Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to immigrants whose home countries […]