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Josephine Abu Assaleh (L) talks with her neice in Damascus on January 30, 2017, after the family was refused entry to the United States and forced to return to Syria. Louai Beshara / AFP

Christian Syrian family with valid visas turned away from US under travel ban

WorldJanuary 31, 2017

Starbucks chairman and chief executive Howard Schultz. Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years. Richard Drew / AP Photo

Starbucks to hire 10,000 refugees over next five years

WorldJanuary 30, 2017

People gather to protest against the travel ban imposed as a result of Donald Trump's executive order at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on January 28, 2017. Laura Buckman/Reuters

US airport holding 77-year-old Iraqi grandmother under Trump ban

WorldJanuary 29, 2017

Protesters gather at the international arrivals of Boston’s Logan International Airport after people arriving from Muslim-majority countries were held at the border control as a result of the new executive order by US president Donald Trump in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 28 January 2017. John Cetrino/EPA

Judge blocks part of Trump's immigration ban for those in US

WorldJanuary 29, 2017

Botan Mahmoud Hassour in Erbil, Iraq, shows his pictures from when he was working with the US military as he awaits his date of travel to the US. as a refugee after President Donald Trump's decision to temporarily bar travellers from seven countries, including Iraq, January 28, 2017. Ahmed Saad / Reuters

Trump’s refugee order tells Iraqis who risked their lives for the US that they’re not wanted

WorldJanuary 29, 2017

People protesting over Donald Trump's immigration ban at the JFK International airport in New York, USA. Zainab Sultan for The National

At JFK airport, protesters rage against Trump refugee ban

WorldJanuary 29, 2017

Supporters of Muslim Americans host a rally against President Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’ policies in Washington DC. The rally comes after the Trump Administration announced that it will suspend immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA

How celebs reacted to Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban in the US

January 29, 2017

Protesters gather at JFK international airport's Terminal 4 in New York on January 28, 2017 to demonstrate against US president Donald Trump's executive order that blocked the arrival of refugees and other travellers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Bryan R Smith / AFP

Anger and chaos as Trump decree blocks Muslim travellers around the world

WorldJanuary 28, 2017

US president Donald Trump takes the cap off a pen to sign an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017. Nicholas Kamm / AFP

Will Trump’s plan for ‘safe zones’ in Syria do more harm than good?

WorldJanuary 26, 2017

A demonstrator in Berlin shows solidarity with refugees, in protest at German populist party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland), two days after the Christmas market terrorist attack in the capital on December 19. John MacDougall / AFP.

Book review: Vamik Volkan’s Immigrants and Refugees – a look at the rising fear of ‘strangers’

January 25, 2017

Author Hassan Blasim has edited and contributed to a groundbreaking collection of stories envisioning Iraq a century after the US invasion. Courtesy Katja Bohm.

‘This is only the beginning of the crisis’: Iraqi author Hassan Blasim on refugees, war and futurism

January 05, 2017

Civilians walk past Iraqi forces as they flee Mosul's southeastern Al Mithaq neighbourhood on January 3, 2017, during an ongoing military operation against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. / AFP / Ahmad MOUSA

At Mosul front, Iraqis fleeing and returning cross paths

WorldJanuary 04, 2017

Syrian father Ali embraces one of his children, Zeyn, upon their arrival from the Syrian city of Idlib to the Turkish border. AFP / BULENT KILIC

Reasons for the Middle East to be cheerful in 2017

OpinionDecember 31, 2016

A refugee wrapped in a blanket walks in front of an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, on December 20, 2016. Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo

Child refugees in Serbia: ‘They are adult without having lived the youth’

WorldDecember 29, 2016

Waste piles up in the northern Beirut suburb of Al Fanar, in February last year. The refugee influx from Syria and a multi-year political gridlock caused a garbage crisis that spilled over into 2016, bringing street protests and a spike in respiratory problems in the Lebanese capital. Nabil Mounzer / EPA

Michael Karam: Lebanon made an admirable effort in 2016 but must do better

BusinessDecember 26, 2016

A camp for displaced people in Bama, a town in Nigeria’s Borno state that was razed by Boko Haram militants. The camp houses a little over 10,000 townspeople who either escaped or survived the seven months under Boko Haram rule. Stefan Heunis / AFP / December 8, 2016

Nigerian city overwhelmed by victims of Boko Haram

WorldDecember 18, 2016

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