The Korean War (1950-53) is arguably the least-remembered of the wars involving the US, and in both academia and the popular imagination you may find it referred to as The Forgotten War. Commencing not quite two years after the division of the Korean …

A Kurdish woman who came to Northern Ireland as a child fleeing the Syrian civil war has graduated with a law degree from Ulster University. Enas Mousa, who graduated today at the Millennium Forum in Derry with an LLB honours degree in law, came to …

After a year away, popular food vendor Falafel Fella is back and will reopen to the public at the Darlington Community Carnival this Saturday, June 28. Mouhyedin Alkalil, the man behind the stall, fled his hometown of Homs in Syria at 18 to escape the …

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Monday concluded a three-day mission to Chad, warning of the worsening crisis affecting children in the eastern part of the country that has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan. …

… , spoke today in favor of war refugees, as part of the observance …

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… and the pressure of hosting war refugees from neighbouring Sudan

Syrian authorities announced Saturday a notorious desert camp housing refugees in Syria was shut down after the last remaining families returned to their areas of origin. The Rukban camp in Syria's desert was established in 2014, at the height of Syria …

The Netherlands has set a deadline for third-country nationals who arrived from Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022 to leave the country, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) announced on 6 June. As of early 2025, …