The Looming Crisis: What If Iran Becomes the Next Syria?
Donald Trump’s Iran policy is a threat to European security. It’s time for the EU to stand up to the U.S. president. © A DER SPIEGEL Editorial By Christiane […]
Syria welcomes returning refugees with charm offensive
By AFP – Aug 15,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees prepare to be evacuated from the southern Lebanese village of Shebaa on Sunday (AFP photo) JDEIDET YABUS, Syria — Several […]
Five Swiss cantons to extend pilot scheme to offer jobs in agriculture to refugees
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 9 August 2018 migrationagriculture A participant in the program. Photo: Union Suisse des Paysans. The trial phase launched in 2015 saw 30 refugees or people on […]
Italy says Britain should take in Gibraltar-flagged rescue boat carrying 141 migrants
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA ROME Migrants rest after being rescued by SOS Mediterranee organisation and Doctors Without Borders during a search and rescue (SAR) operation with the MV Aquarius […]
Alienating Immigrants Is Germany Lurching To the Right?
Right-wing agitators are heating up the discussion about immigration in Germany and filling it with hate. Last week’s resignation of national football player Mesut Özil over concerns about racism is […]
A comparison of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan and Robinson Crusoe on the migration crisis
FERHAT KÜÇÜK PublishedAugust 6, 2018 Libyan fishermen throw a life jacket at a rubber boat full of migrants trying to reach Italy soils, Feb. 13, 2017. Fictional characters help us […]
Palestinian refugees: Living without work is a slow death
1 / 3 Bakaa refugee camp, north of Amman. (AFP) 2 / 3 UNRWA staff protest job cuts at the agency’s Gaza City HQ. (AFP) 3 / 3 Palestinian boys […]
Russia confirms it sent Syrian refugee proposal to US
By AFP – Aug 04,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees sit on a bench at the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan on Thursday (AFP photo by Khalil Mazraawi) MOSCOW — Russia’s army on […]
Alienating Immigrants – Is Germany Lurching To the Right?
Right-wing agitators are heating up the discussion about immigration in Germany and filling it with hate. Last week’s resignation of national football player Mesut Özil over concerns about racism is […]
France to extend 1b euros in aid to Syria refugees, hosts
Amman, Paris agree to join efforts to help solve Mideast crisis By Camille Dupire – Aug 02,2018 -JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah meets with French Minister of Europe and […]
Germany lifts ban on family reunions for refugees amid ongoing integration debate
REUTERS BERLIN A Syrian woman cries as she sits on a folding bed in a former newspaper printing house used as a refugee registration centre for the German state of […]
Focus on freedom: An insider’s eye on refugees
1 / 3 2 / 3 3 / 3 Updated 29 July 2018 Rawan Radwan Many feel that it’s going to be hopeless with the strict border control in EU […]
UN praises Jordan’s role in cross-border relief aid to Syrians
By Ana V. Ibáñez Prieto – Jul 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock on Friday praised the “excellent” […]
Jordan, Russia encourage voluntary return of Syrian refugees
Safadi says a safe environment for refugees’ return is a prerequisite By JT – Jul 27,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This handout photo released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency […]
Nationalism, immigration and economic success
Jul 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jason Furman CAMBRIDGE — One of the central challenges facing the world’s advanced economies is slowing growth. Over the last decade, growth rates in […]
Brussels pledges to pay for each migrant taken by EU governments
REUTERS BRUSSELS Reuters Photo The European Commission offered on Tuesday to shoulder the cost of taking in migrants from boats in the Mediterranean, seeking to entice more governments to shoulder […]
Safadi, Lavrov discuss return of refugees
422 Syrians enter Kingdom for short stay until resettlement in UK, Germany and Canada By JT – Jul 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his […]
Hundreds of migrants rescued off Spain
Spain By Euronews • last updated: 22/07/2018 Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service picked up more than 300 migrants in 15 boats on Sunday (July 22) in the Strait of Gibraltar and the […]
The Latest: Libyan coast guard intercepts 40 migrants at sea
By The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Jul 22, 2018, The Associated PressParamedics carry a person rescued from a boat that capsized off Cyprus’ northern coastline, as he is brought […]
Libya rejects EU plan for asylum processing centres
Holding centres for migrants to be further discussed in coming weeks by European Commission By AFP – Jul 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Josepha, a 40-year-old woman from Cameroon who was […]