by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 30, 2017 | Middle East
The UN refugee agency said Friday that nearly a half-million people who were displaced within Syria due to its civil war have returned to their homes since the beginning of the year. The agency pointed out to “a notable trend of spontaneous returns to and within...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 19, 2017 | World
Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in places like Syria and South Sudan had left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes last year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday. That number that includes refugees, asylum...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 18, 2017 | Middle East
Mosul- UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq Lise Grande has warned the UN would not have enough resources to confront a mass exodus from west Mosul as tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing the city where Iraqi forces are fighting ISIS militants. “The number of...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 6, 2017 | Middle East
Mosul- Iraqi forces reached on Sunday the outskirts of Mosul’s old city center after pushing into some neighborhoods in West Mosul, which turned their battle with the ISIS terrorist organization into a “war of alleyways.” On Sunday, Iraqi security forces fought ISIS...
by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Dec 29, 2016 | Middle East
The Saudi popular campaign to provide relief to the Syrian people which was ordered to be organised by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz continues to receive donations from all over the country for the second day in a row. Donations made...
