Turkey has announced plans to tighten conditions for foreigners to be eligible for residence permits. New rules to be introduced next month will especially affect Syrian refugees and other migrants in certain neighborhoods.
Slovenia has announced that it will be taking down its border fence on the Croatian border by the end of the year. The Interior Ministry confirmed the plan to the news agency STA.
Lebanese military personnel have reportedly arrested 64 migrants during an attempt to sail to Europe from the north of the country. More people are seeking to leave the small Middle Eastern country to look for a better life in Europe.
Syrian refugees in Turkey are worried about Erdogan's plans to to relocate up to 1 million of them to "safe areas" inside Syria. Damascus is also unhappy, fearing a Turkish landgrab and the return of dissidents.
Former refugee Anas Alturkey wants to give something back to society: having experienced and fled from the Syrian civil war, he is now involved in helping Ukrainian refugees to find their feet in Germany.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed plans to send around one million Syrian refugees back to their country. The President said that the plans were at an "advanced" stage.
A gang of three men are on trial in Belfast, accused of trafficking more than 40 Syrians from Europe to Ireland and on to the UK.
Oxfam Italia has launched a new campaign called "Let's Save Lives in Emergencies" to raise awareness of its work in war-torn countries such as Yemen, Syria, and now, Ukraine.
A controversy has erupted in Denmark after the government asked Syrian refugees to return to their home country despite the civil war. Meanwhile it works on legislation to suspend asylum rules for Ukrainians fleeing their country.
Munzir and Mustafa, a Syrian father and son, both missing limbs due to the war in their home country and featured in a now-well-known photo entitled 'Hardship of Life', are starting a new life in Italy, where they arrived Friday with their family.
In December, the Home Office sent a rejection letter to a Syrian asylum seeker, saying it was safe for him to return. That would have been first case of its kind in the UK. Now, authorities appear to have backtracked.
A German court has found a Syrian former army colonel guilty of crimes against humanity, handing him a life sentence. The trial is the first to take place anywhere examining state-sponsored torture in Syrian Civil War.