At the weekend, a Kurdish man in his fifties from the region of Erbil died in a hospital in Bosnia. He leaves behind a wife and four children who hope to seek asylum in Europe. His death comes a month after a fight at a migrant camp, during which he was "critically injured." Was his death a tragic accident or the result of something more sinister?
Artist und activist Zehra Doan is auctioning of one of her artworks to help fund the migrant rescue missions of NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans.
UNHCR has reported that it is widening its response in Iraq to deal with the continuing influx of refugees. The UN refugee agency on Tuesday said over the past two weeks, more than 12,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Iraq.
Police have said the 31-year-old man was too injured to establish a motive, but suspected it was political. He is receiving treatment at a nearby burn trauma unit.
According to the latest UN figures, Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria has already resulted in at least 176,000 people being displaced, about half of whom are children. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in the past week alone, more than 60,000 people in the region had fled their homes.
The UN refugee agency has increased humanitarian aid in northeastern Syria after violence intensified in the area due to the military operation launched by Turkey last week.
Turkey has begun an assault on US-backed Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria to push the Kurdish militia away from the border and eventually allow the repatriation of up to 3 million Syrian refugees in a 'safe zone'. InfoMigrants answers important questions about Turkish President Erdogan's plans and the possible consequences for the region.
Zozan Yasar is a Kurdish journalist from Turkey. Denied access to education, Zozan taught herself to read and write and went to university to get a degree before working as a journalist. As a Kurd, she struggled to officially register her Kurdish name with the government in Turkey. After arrests and harassment, she was eventually forced to seek asylum in the UK.
The federal ministry of the interior has passed a state-level reception program that will welcome traumatized Yazidis from Iraq who were persecuted by the "Islamic State."
A total of 51 Kurdish migrants have been rescued off the Crotone coast, in the Italian southern region of Calabria, where their sailboat had run aground. The migrants' screams woke up some of the residents of the area, who took action to save them.
Police in the southwestern city are searching for two additional people suspected of being involved in the rape of a German student. Eight suspects are already in custody, and a state minister is facing criticism.
Having fled the murderous threat of the "Islamic State" (IS) group, Yazidi families from Iraq now live in fear in refugee camps in Greece. Judit Neurink reports from Malakasa.