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Britain to Take in Unaccompanied Refugee Children from Conflict Areas

Britain to Take in Unaccompanied Refugee Children from Conflict Areas

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 28, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Britain has decided to take in some unaccompanied refugee children from Syria, North Africa and other conflict areas, the Home Office (interior ministry) said on Thursday, without specifying an exact number. The British government has already pledged to receive 20,000...

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Syrian refugees line-up as they are about to cross Greece’s border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 8, 2015. Greece asked the European Union for aid to prevent it being overwhelmed by refugees, as a minister said arrivals on Lesbos had swollen to three times as many as the island could handle. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Opinion: The international community should step up efforts to contain Syrian refugee crisis

by Ali Ibrahim | Sep 9, 2015 | Opinion

News of Syrian refugees struggling to enter Austria and Germany from Hungary has dominated headlines around the world for the past week. None of the refugees wants to stay in Hungary or Serbia, or any of the countries they pass through on the way to Germany, according...

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Migrants arrive at the border between Hungary and Austria on September 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 5, 2015 | World

Hegyeshalom (Hungary) and Vienna, Reuters—Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bused to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers...

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Syrian refugee children peer from a tent supplied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in al-Marj, in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley. (AFP)

For the Sake of Syria’s Children

by Osman Mirghani | Mar 28, 2013 | Opinion

There are many victims of the crisis in Syria, yet it is the children who are suffering the most. Their stories of suffering are the most painful, and the impact of war is hardest on them. The effects will last for many years to come, even after the bullets stop and...