03 Feb 2015

Aid for Kurdistan on its way from Wellingborough

A container packed full of more than 1,000 boxes of potentially life-saving aid is on its way to help people […]

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03 Feb 2015

EU commissioner pledges continued support to Syrian refugees

EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides, visited yesterday Jordan Red Crescent, where he met with its […]

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03 Feb 2015

UK Should allow more Syrian Refugees to come to the country

Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and other organisations appealed last week for the British government to take many more […]

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02 Feb 2015

Syrian refugees at snowed-in camp long for ceasefire

When a deadly snow storm hit Lebanon last week, Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley sheltered in tents made from […]

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02 Feb 2015

Canada’s legacy of refugee aid at risk of fading

We were surprised to learn that 60% of the new Syrian refugees will have to be supported, not by the […]

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02 Feb 2015

Turkey opens biggest camp for Syrian refugees

Turkey opened its biggest refugee camp on Sunday to house 35,000 people fleeing fighting between Kurdish forces and Islamist militants […]

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02 Feb 2015

Syria approves U.N. $2.9 billion humanitarian aid plan for 2015

Syria has approved a United Nations plan to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in the war-torn country this […]

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02 Feb 2015

U.S. Congress questions plan to admit Syrian refugees

The Republican-led House Committee on Homeland Security is challenging an Obama administration plan to admit Syrian refugees to the United […]

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02 Feb 2015

Palestinians in Syria cut off from aid once more – U.N.

Tens of thousands of longtime Palestinian refugees in a camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital have been cut […]

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02 Feb 2015

UN World Food Program needs $31.8 m by March to provide assistance for Syrian refugees in Jordan

With the start of the second month of the year, the UN agency has not received enough funds, which will […]

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