and less than 10 percent live in formal refugee camps; the majority are spread throughout the country. The refugees—13 percent of Jordan's population—are a major burden on Jordan's weak economy.

This is the question a Squamish-based charity, The Power of Play, and a team of industrial design students from Emily Carr ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

While it's true that Natchez was the site of Union Army work camps that housed freed slaves — often under dangerously overcrowded and unsanitary conditions — they were built as refugee ...

Security forces are clearing roads, demolishing structures, and imposing movement restrictions to curb terrorist activity.The ...

ABU DHABI, 27th September, 2014 (WAM) -- The U.A.E. Ministry of International Cooperation and Development (MICAD), today signed two agreements with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), to provide ...

The UN said Monday it and partners were seeking nearly $1 billion to provide life-saving aid this year for some 1.5 million Rohingya refugees and their hosts in Bangladesh. The United Nations said ...