WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is proceeding with plans to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees, but the country's background-vetting programme is under scrutiny by a U.S. congressional panel, with a ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Syrian refugees can be matched with Canadians keen to help them rebuild their lives under a new initiative that aims to aid some of the millions of Syrians ...

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 ...

It’s been nearly a full decade since the photograph of a dead refugee child on a Turkish beach caused the world to stop in its tracks and focus its fleeting attention on the 21st century’s most ...

Ms. Kontar is a photographer and Syrian refugee. On the edge of my homeland, a line of cars stretched before me, with people’s faces peering out. They were about to return — their bags packed, stacked ...

BEIRUT — The move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country and also help encourage investments, the head of the U.N. refugee ...