A decade after arriving in the UK as a young refugee, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador officially becomes a commercial airline pilot and hopes her achievement will inspire other young refugees to aim high.

Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...

When the photo of a drowned Syrian boy began circulating, Cape Breton's Clare Currie felt deeply moved to help. She saw the people of her beautiful but underresourced island mobilize in a big way ...

How can I celebrate World Refugee Day in Erie? The 2025 event will feature multiple local refugee performing artists, musicians, dancers, craft vendors and food from the Afghan, Syrian, Ukrainian ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi announced that more than two million Syrian refugees and displaced individuals have returned home following the fall of Bashar Assad's regime last ...

However, there is little aid available for the returnees, with multiple crises in the region -- including the new Israel-Iran war -- and shrinking support from donors. The UNHCR has reduced programs ...

UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi has urged more international support for Syria to speed up reconstruction and enable further refugee returns after some 14 years of devastating civil war. "I am ...

Grandi met Syrian families re-entering the country after more than a decade as refugees in neighbouring Lebanon, who he said had “voted with their feet and decided to go back and restart their lives” ...

Over 14 million Syrian refugees fled their homeland during the country's civil war. Since the collapse of Bashar al Assad's regime last year, over a million have started to return home. But for ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Thursday that the international community and financial institutions must support efforts to secure the safe return of Syrian refugees to ...

19 June 2025 Eyad Jaabary (Eddy) knew very little about Argentina before landing at Buenos Aires airport as a refugee in 2017. Since then, and with the support of a sponsor family, he has built a new ...