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.
Brenna Daldorph, a journalist at InfoMigrants, first met Kurdish refugee Hema* and her daughter Jana* at the "Jungle" migrant camp near Grande-Synthe in France in 2015. Two years later, they found asylum in the United Kingdom. While Jana and her new baby sister Mina* are flourishing, Hema is struggling to adjust to her new life as a refugee in the UK.
A campaign was launched by refugee solidarity groups and local radio stations on Monday to help the struggling volunteers at the Lavrio near Athens care for 150 Kurdish migrant children and their families following the increased influxes of refugees arriving in Greece. The Lavrio Center for Kurdish Refugees (KFPL), which is a small facility on the coast of Attica, is appealing for donations of food, personal hygiene products, and clothing.