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          Refugees

          The latest news and stories on refugees and asylum seekers

          A refugee carrying a child is tripped up by TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo while they were trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke village, Hungary, September 8, 2015. Marko Djurica / Reuters

          Hungarian TV journalist fired as video emerges of her tripping up fleeing refugees

          WorldSeptember 09, 2015
          Members of European Parliament hold banners reading 'no fortress Europe' during a debate on the unprecedented flow of migrants and refugees at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on September 9, 2015. European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker released plans to force the bloc to share 160,000 refugees and ease the pressure on border states from the worst migration crisis since the Second World War II. Frederick Florin / AFP Photo

          EU’s ‘bold’ plan to share 160,000 refugees

          WorldSeptember 09, 2015

          100,000 Syrians move to UAE since 2011

          GovernmentSeptember 09, 2015
          Migrants and refugees walk to cross the Greek-FYR of Macedonia border near the village of Idomeni, in northern Greece on September 8, 2015. Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP Photo

          Europe must address heart of refugee crisis: Syrian war

          WorldSeptember 08, 2015

          Denmark ad in Lebanon newspapers warns off migrants

          WorldSeptember 07, 2015
          Abdullah Kurdi, whose family drowned off Turkey, stands in front of his neighbour’s house in Kobani, Syria, yesterday. Yasin Akgul / AFP

          Turkish policeman who found Aylan ‘thought of his own son’

          WorldSeptember 06, 2015
          World in focus — best photos for September 6, 2015

          World in focus — best photos for September 6, 2015

          WorldSeptember 06, 2015
          African migrants on board a Norwegian Coast Guard boat in the Mediterranean. Gregorio Borgia / AP

          Why can’t Europe cope with a humanitarian crisis?

          OpinionSeptember 03, 2015
          A Turkish gendarmerie retrieves the body of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi from a beach in Turkey. Nilufer Demir / Reuters

          A haunting image changes attitudes

          OpinionSeptember 03, 2015
          A migrant is detained after the train travelling from Budapest to Bicske, Hungary on September 3, 2015. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most of them having come through the southern border with Serbia. Petr David Josek/AP Photo

          Scenes of chaos as Hungary ‘tricks’ migrants onto train

          WorldSeptember 03, 2015
          Antonio Guterres UN High Commissioner for Refugees with Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch, the Pakistani Minister of State and Frontier Regions. Mr Guterres was in the UAE seeking funding for an Afghan refugee repatriation project. Ravindranath K / The National

          UN High Commissioner for Refugees praises UAE for helping Yemen

          UAESeptember 03, 2015
          Migrants trying to pass the border between the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Gevgelija-Presevo journey is just a part of the journey that the refugees, most of them from Syria, are forced to make along the so-called Balkan corridor, which takes them from Turkey, across Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to Hungary, the gateway to the European Union. Valdrin Xhemaj/EPA

          Fleeing ISIL killings, a Syrian family reaches Bavaria only to be arrested

          WorldSeptember 02, 2015

          Sheikha Lubna praises UAE support of refugees

          GovernmentSeptember 02, 2015
          A group of migrants walk along a dusty road towards a transit center for migrants, after crossing the border from Greece to Macedonia, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija on Monday. Boris Grdanoski / AP

          EU struggles for answers as migrant influx raises tensions

          WorldSeptember 01, 2015
          A father of a refugee family is arrested by local police near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border on August 28, 2015. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP Photo

          200 feared dead after boat capsizes off Libya

          WorldAugust 29, 2015
          Rescuers remove the bodies of drowned migrants who were trapped in the bottom of a boat in Zuwara, Libya. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

          Syria refugee crisis needs a viable plan

          OpinionAugust 29, 2015
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