Foreign troops should leave Syria once terrorists are defeated and security reestablished, Russia's Vladimir Putin has said at a peace summit in Ankara. Turkey and Russia are at odds over a regime offensive in Idlib.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported Thursday September 12 that it had delivered humanitarian aid on Wednesday to the 15,000 IDPs in the Rukban camp in southeastern Syria. The camp management, however, said that the UN and Syrian government convoy had not been allowed to enter the camp.
The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran are to meet again to strike a deal over the last rebel-held enclave in Syria. DW provides an overview of the catastrophic situation in Idlib.
The UN Migration Agency IOM has just completed an EU-funded pilot project called LINK IT. The project intended to boost integration outcomes for Syrian refugees resettled in the EU; namely in Germany, Portugal, Romania and the UK. LINK IT focused on strengthening links between pre-departure and post-arrival integration support for refugees.
According to aid group Amnesty International, Lebanese authorities forcibly deported almost 2,500 Syrian refugees back to Syria in the past three months. Lebanese officials have repeatedly said that Syrian refugees placed a massive burden on the country's ailing economy. Meanwhile, Turkey, which hosts four million refugees, has called for world coordination on the Syrian refugee crisis.
War, political turmoil, ethnic conflicts and deteriorating economies have forced millions across Europe, Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia to flee their homes. InfoMigrants takes a look at some major refugee crises around the world.
In July, the Turkish authorities in Istanbul ordered Syrian refugees who were not registered in Istanbul to leave the city by August 20 and return to the provinces where they registered. Now, that deadline has been extended until the end of October. However, there are reports of many Syrians being forcibly removed and sent back to Syria.
International charity Action Against Hunger has denounced the deterioration of living conditions for Syrian refugees in Lebanon following a recent order to dismantle houses and other buildings at a number of camps.
Lebanon's labor ministry is clamping down on businesses employing foreigners without valid work permits, after ignoring guidelines governing the employment of the country's 1.5 million-strong Syrian diaspora virtually for years.
Asmaa came to Germany in 2015 after fleeing the war in Syria. She's trying hard to learn the German language and wants to go to university. Sometimes though, she feels like she is not accepted by the people around her.
Turkish authorities say they have intercepted about 15,000 migrants without valid documents in Istanbul in the past 20 days, among them 2,630 Syrian nationals.
Turkish human rights groups have staged a protest on Saturday in Istanbul in solidarity with Syrian refugees. The demo followed a government announcement earlier last week saying that Syrians would be relocated out of the city if they are not officially registered.