Number of Syrian refugees in Turkey reaches 3,208,131
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Children play at the Öncüpınar camp for Syrian refugees next to the border crossing with Syria, near Kilis in southeastern Turkey, June 20, 2016. (AP Photo) […]
Jordan allows Syrian children with no documents to join schools — officials
UNICEF congratulate government for bold and positive step By Mahmoud Al Abed – Sep 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Children inside a classroom at Zaatri refugee camp, host to tens of […]
‘Everything is Fine’A Syrian Family’s Quest to Become German
The Muatis are one of hundreds of thousands of refugee families who have come to Germany from Syria since the war broke out. They desperately want to fit in and contribute to society, but even as the children relish their newfound freedoms, the parents worry about their future. By Claas Relotius […]
Jordan issues first-of-its-kind work permit to Syrian refugees
By ILO News – Aug 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions (GFJTU) has begun issuing the Arab region’s first non-employer and non-position-specific work permits for Syrian refugees since the Syrian crisis erupted in 2011. The temporary permits are issued for a minimal […]
Nearly half a million Syrian children receive education in Turkey
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo A total of 169,010 Syrian children attend Turkish public schools under the Temporary Protection Regulation, while 294,112 Syrian students go to special temporary schooling centers, Turkey’s Minister of National Education Ismet Yılmaz said Wednesday. “While a curriculum was being prepared for these students to study […]
Organ trafficking ‘booming’ in Lebanon as desperate Syrians sell kidneys, eyes — BBC
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Apr 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian boy stands against a bullet-riddled wall in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, on Monday (AFP photo) LONDON — Trade in illegal organs is a booming business in […]
Syrian crisis stretched Jordan to the limit — Mulki
PM tells EU-hosted Syria conference that direct cost incurred by Jordan since 2012 amounts to $10.6b By JT – Apr 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Hani Mulki holds […]
Syrian refugee numbers pass 5 million mark in region — UN
By Reuters – Mar 30,2017 – JORDAN TIMES United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (right) talks with Syrian girls during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp on Tuesday (AFP […]
Jordan hosts 657,000 registered Syrian refugees
By Mohammad Ghazal – Mar 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this recent photo, Syrian refugees are seen at Azraq Camp, around 100km from Amman, in the eastern desert (Photo by Amjad Ghsoun) AMMAN — Out of some 4.9 million Syrians registered with the UNHCR in the region by mid […]
Forgetting the suffering of Syrian refugees
KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT@KilicKanat Published14 hours ago Due to rapid changes in global politics and other forms of conjectural distractions, once again the international community has taken the plight of refugees off its main agenda. However, the plight of refugees continues in various ways, in particular, the dire situations of Syrians […]
‘Brute determination’: Syrian refugee mom gives birth hours after reaching new home
Fort McMurray’s population rises by 6 — make that 7 — after new family of Syrian refugees arrive By David Thurton, CBC News Posted: Feb 01, 2017 Ibtesam Alkarnake was already in labour when she and her Syrian refugee family arrived at the Fort McMurray airport on Tuesday night. Hours later […]
Ikea to sell rugs made by Syrian refugees in 2019
by Alanna Petroff @AlannaPetroff January 31, 2017: 5 stunning stats about IKEA Ikea plans to roll out a new range of rugs and textiles made by Syrian refugees in 2019. The initiative is expected to create jobs for about 200 Syrian refugees living in Jordan, most of them women. “The […]
Syrian girl blogger, 7, meets Erdogan after evacuation
Source: Jordan Times Bana has 330,000 online followers By AFP – Dec 21,2016 ANKARA — Seven-year-old Bana Al Abed, whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of […]
A Devon village has unleashed its anger toward the recent 70 Syrian arrivals by donating £600 worth of jumpers to them
I visited Torrington, the village apparently ‘furious’ that 70 Syrian migrants moved there, and found out the truth Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Last week I was in Torrington, North Devon, the village that’s been in the news because local people organised a massive collection of clothes and toys, for Syrian […]
‘Do not play politics with Syrian Christians’
Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan and Bush administration official and a former colleague on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), wrote the article “The United States bars Christian, not Muslim, refugees from Syria”, provocative, as its title suggests, but […]
Inside the incredible school teaching refugee children on the Greek island of Chios
Child refugees in Greece have missed 18 months of their education on average, with one in five never having been to school. But on one island, a Swiss organisation has […]
Werner Klauner, former extremist now known as Ibrahim
A former deputy of the far-right extreme party in Germany, Werner Klauner is now known as Ibrahim and spends his time and earnings helping refugees World Bulletin / News Desk Werner Klauner, a deputy for the far right-wing extremist extreme right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) has reverted to Islam. […]
‘Over half of Syrian refugees in Jordan are children’
By Laila Azzeh – Aug 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrian refugees carry water at the Azraq camp, some 100km east of Amman and 20km west of the town of Azraq in Zarqa Governorate, recently (Photo by Muath Freij) AMMAN — More than half of the registered Syrian refugees […]
Odd jobs in Istanbul for young Syrians who dreamed big
Jul 6, 2016 A Syrian man uses a mobile phone next to a travel agency in Fatih neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday. — AFP ISTANBUL, Turkey — Receptionist, waiter, hairdresser, pastry-seller: These are the jobs of the ambitious young Syrians who abandoned their dreams in Damascus to start from […]
Turkey plans to offer citizenship to Syrian refugees
The Telegraph By Zia Weise2 hrs ago Turkey is willing to grant citizenship to Syrian refugees, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, in a controversial announcement that will raise questions over his commitment to halt the migration flow to Europe . Speaking at a Ramadan dinner in Kilis, […]