November 2017

A total of 55 projects worth 1.78 billion euros have been contracted as a result of the 2016 EU-Turkey migrant deal, in which Brussels promised to speed up the allocation of three billion euros of migrant aid to the country. With 908…

Staffordshire is to welcome 50 more Syrian refugee families as part of the Government’s promise to help people fleeing the war-torn country. A spokesman for the county council told the Lichfield Mercury it is "too early" to say exactly…

Halfway through programme, Syrians feel welcome; more can be done to improve language and employment support; UNHCR urges rollout of National Integration plan and resettlement expansion post 2020 The UK’s Syrian refugee resettlement…

French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge said Tuesday its offices were being searched for information on financial links to jihadist groups in Syria, including Islamic State. “French investigators are in the process of investigating our offices,”…

The U.S. military will fight Islamic State in Syria “as long as they want to fight,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday, describing a longer-term role for U.S. troops long after the insurgents lose all of the territory they…

After fleeing war-ravaged Syria, waiting in Turkey, passing through a Greek island and traversing the mainland last year, Fahd al-Mekki and his family reached the Idomeni, a crossing into Macedonia, only to be turned back. Macedonian…

Hundreds of ISIS fighters flee Syria and spark fears British Jihadis could return to the UK 250 militants and 3,500 relatives evacuated Raqqa in a four-mile convoy which included trucks containing weapons HUNDREDS of…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested Russia and the United States should pull their troops out of war-torn Syria after their leaders - Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump - said there was "no military solution" to the…

Russia and the United States will continue their efforts fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria, US President Donald Trump and Russian Vladimir Putin have agreed. In a joint statement released by…

Syrian rescue workers on Tuesday continued their search for victims still under the rubble a day after airstrikes hit a busy market in a rebel-held town in the country's north, killing at least 61 people, according to a monitoring group…