The Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, according to Italian NGO "Un Ponte Per", which is one of the few international organizations on the ground. The camp hosts people who have fled the most recent fighting against ISIS.
Lebanese security forces have destroyed 20 refugee homes for breaking building regulations that refugees have to abide by. Aid organizations have said they expect further demolitions to follow.
The family of Aylan Kurdi have denounced a Turkish movie based on his life and death at sea. Images of the drowned toddler's body sent shockwaves around the world when he died.
Between Wednesday and Thursday, some 77 migrants and refugees arrived in Rome through humanitarian corridors. Since February 2016, about 2,100 refugees have arrived in Italy - over 1,600 from Lebanon and 500 from Ethiopia - and about 500 in France, Belgium, and Andorra thanks to the humanitarian initiative.
This is the story of Ahmed H., a Syrian man living in Cyprus since 2006 and married to a Cypriot national. He has two Cypriot-national daughters. Since 2015 he has been detained in Hungary. Now Amnesty International is trying to convince the Cypriot authorities to allow Ahmed to return home.
Syrian asylum seekers have been stuck in limbo in Greece because of the failure of the EU-Turkey agreement, according to a senior UK immigration and human rights lawyer. Taimour Lay says hardly any refugees have been sent back to Turkey, and the EU should scrap the deal.
For Syrian refugees in Egypt, crackdowns from the state and racism in society are a part of everyday life. A migration expert spoke to DW about conditions in the country, and how the EU shares some of the blame.
As many as 25,000 Syrian refugees in the Lebanese city of Arsal have been told that their homes are to be demolished from July 1. The government has extended a June 9 deadline to begin removing all refugee shelters built with materials other than timber and plastic sheeting. InfoMigrants visited one of the settlements in the city, where residents fear they will soon be left homeless.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has reiterated his demand that all Afghans obliged to leave the country shall be deported to Afghanistan. Right now, only criminal offenders and people who disguised their identity can be sent back to the country.
The Turkish government has said that since 2016 a reported 329,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Turkey after cross-border military operations carried out by Ankara.
Migration is the theme of a new mini-series, co-produced by French and German media. Under the title “Eden”, five different human stories across six episodes are woven together in an attempt to portray the extent that the current migration context has touched everyone’s lives in Europe.
Many Syrian refugees in Lebanon feel their situation is so dire that they are considering heading back to war-torn Syria. But it's a journey into the unknown, as Diana Hodali reports from Beirut.