June 2016

A barbed wire-topped fence encircles a section of this bleak UN-run camp, isolating thousands of recent arrivals - whom Jordan considers a potential security risk - from other Syrian refugees. This camp-within-a-camp, called “Village…

mar Mateen, the gunman who killed and wounded more than 100 people at a nightclub in Florida, had been in contact withAmerica’s first suicide bomber in Syria. The 29-year-old American citizen whose parents had immigrated from…

The Obama administration has created a “resettlement surge center” which has produced a pouring of 100 Syrian refugees in the U.S. per day. The very real risk to Americans – the lack of proper vetting of these individuals by the quick…

Roula Aboukhodoud knows what it feels like to be lost, afraid and unable to ask for help. Aboukhodoud immigrated to Canada in 1985 after war broke out in her home country of Lebanon. She was seven years old and had yet to…

A lot has been written about refugees in the last two years. But rarely do we hear from the refugees themselves in more than just soundbites. GlobalPost, an international news organization within the PRI family, commissioned essays from…

This piece is part of our special coverage on Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to the United States this week. Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince is set to leave for the United States on an official visit on…

This piece is part of our special coverage on Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to the United States this week. The challenges facing Saudi Arabia and the US in the final seven months of President Obama’s term are…

A Syrian independent media activist working in southeast Turkey survived an assassination attempt Sunday which was claimed by ISIS. Ahmed Abdelqader, founder of the Syrian media group Eye on Homeland, was shot Sunday afternoon by two…

As Iraqi security forces battle to retake Fallujah, in the western province of Anbar, from the ISIS group, humanitarian needs in this newest hotspot and elsewhere in the country are ever increasing. More and more, the ongoing large-scale…

Daraa Province: An explosion was heard in the area between the towns of Sidon and Kahil in the eastern countryside of Daraa, intersecting sources told the activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that it was caused by an…