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Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans
Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans in the country by an additional six months, the government announced — a move likely ...
Winter brings more troubles for displaced Syrians
This tent camp sheltering Syrians uprooted by their country's brutal civil war has lost the race against winter: The ground under white tents is ...
Chad refugees in Cameroon start returning home
Nearly 2,000 Chadian refugees who fled a 2008 civil war between rebels and government forces into Cameroon began leaving their camp to return to their ...
African treaty to aid the displaced takes effect
A treaty that African nations hope will lead to the fair and humane treatment of people displaced in their own countries went into force Thursday, ...
Somalia property boom forces refugees onto street
In parts of Somalia's capital, rubble-strewn lots that once served as sniper positions have been rebuilt into well-maintained homes, hotels and ...
Thousands continue to flee homes in Ivory Coast
Thousands of people in Ivory Coast continue to flee their homes because of ongoing land conflicts and residual tension from last year's postelection ...
Syrian war clouds Turkish plan to clear land mines
For two people walking into a Turkish minefield, they looked awfully assured. The pair strode in from Syria on a recent afternoon, following a faint ...
Ivory Coast exiles in Ghana campaign for Gbagbo
Moussa Toure Zeguen, an aging militia leader and longtime backer of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, spends most of his time in exile ...
Jordan police vow to strike those who stir unrest
Jordanian authorities will strike those who incite violence during protests with an "iron fist," the country's police chief said Thursday as the ...
Look at how Syria neighbors are drawn into its war
Syria's neighbors are increasingly being drawn into the country's civil war in a variety of ways, whether militarily or due to an exodus of Syrians ...
US donates $34 million to UN plan to help Syria
A U.N. plan to provide $836 million in emergency aid to Syrians battered by their nation's civil war ran into funding problems Friday despite an ...
UN says 11,000 Syrians flee in past 24 hours
At least 11,000 Syrian refugees have fled their country in single day, pouring into Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon with children and dozens of wounded, U.
Syrian children most common sight at refugee camp
Most of the displaced people in the tent camp rising near this village on the Syrian-Turkish border are children. All have fled the violence of ...
Britain: Obama victory an opportunity for Syria
Britain called on the U.S. and other allies Wednesday to do more to shape the Syrian opposition into a coherent force, saying the re-election of ...
Syrian rebels make new push into capital Damascus
Syrian rebels made a new push into Damascus on Wednesday, clashing heavily with troops in the rebellious suburbs of the capital and firing mortars at ...
Palestinian leader violates taboo on refugees
The Palestinian president has set off a strident debate by shattering a once-inviolable taboo, publicly suggesting his people would have to relinquish ...
Ivory Coast: Fighters sneak in Ghana refugee camps
Fighters who backed former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo have infiltrated refugee camps in Ghana and are accused of attacking security bases ...
Hamas PM blasts Palestinian leader over TV remarks
The prime minister of the Hamas-ruled Gaza strip criticized the Palestinian president on Friday for comments given to Israeli media, alleging that ...
Vietnamese-Americans try to save elders' stories
The knock came at night more than 30 years ago. Hugo Van, then a young man, had a chance to flee newly communist Vietnam and walk to freedom.
UN says 22,000 displaced in latest Myanmar unrest
Victims of Myanmar's latest explosion of Muslim-Buddhist violence fled to already packed displacement camps along the country's western coast, with ...
Myanmar says ethnic strife killed 67
Myanmar authorities on Friday revised downward the death toll from this week's ethnic violence in the country's west after warning that the strife ...
Syrian warplanes strike rebel-held town in north
Syrian warplanes on Tuesday struck a strategic rebel-held town in the country's north in an attempt to reopen a key supply route, activists said, as ...
Jordan's king warns of fallout from Syria conflict
Jordan's King Abdullah II has warned of the "dangerous repercussions" from the Syrian conflict on countries across the Middle East. A royal palace ...
UN: 150,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Egypt
The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday the number of Syrian refugees who have fled their country's civil war and found shelter in Egypt has now topped ...