GENEVA, Dec 11 (UNHCR) - The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed news of the arrival in Canada last night of the first group of Syrian refugees under a recently announced humanitarian programme. The ...

It's been a little over a year since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria ended a 14-year civil war. More than 1.3 million Syrians have returned home since then, according to the UN refugee agency, ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

Less than four months after it started accepting Syrian refugees, Canada says it has reached its goal of bringing in 25,000 people who have fled the raging civil war. The initiative was a campaign ...

Around a quarter of Syria's population has fled since the March 2011 start of a conflict that has killed over 320,000 people. More than five million Syrians are now refugees, the UN said Thursday, as ...

Carleton's migration and diaspora studies' "Refugees as Diaspora Partners" event discussed how refugee communities contribute ...

BEIRUT — The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon said Thursday that the move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country.

BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 19 (UPI) --U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Thursday that the international community and financial institutions must support efforts to secure the safe ...