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Syrian refugees

a soldier in front of a prison
Military
Turkey eyes a new military operation in northern Syria, leaving people in the area on edge
Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
Arts, Culture & Media
This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery
Muhammed Erdogan, the first Syrian turned Turkish citizen to run for parliament in Turkey, in front of his campaign truck.
Global Politics
The ‘Syrian Erdogan’ running in Turkey’s parliamentary elections
Students in a welcome class for migrants attend a German language lesson at the Sankt Franziskus school in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 22, 2016.
Justice
There are about 400,000 refugee kids in Germany. Educating them is a ‘national task.’
Children pose near tents inside an informal settlement for Syrian refugees in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
Economics
Syrian refugees resort to child labor in Lebanon
Christa Schmidt at the table in her apartment in Traunreut where she tutors refugees in German. Schmidt’s parents were German refugees from Romania.
Conflict
A small German city finds it’s not easy welcoming hundreds of Syrian refugees
Wesam Daas, left, with Carnival revelers in Altenmarkt, Bavaria.
Conflict
After fleeing Palmyra, this Syrian family is trying to find home in small-town Germany
A general view shows tents for Syrian refugees at a makeshift settlement in Bar Elias, a town in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon, on March 28, 2017.
Conflict
Lebanon banned all protests after Syrians called for better refugee conditions
Men dig graves inside a graveyard for Syrian refugees in the village of Taalabaya, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Jan. 10, 2016.
Conflict
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are running out of space to bury their dead
Jamal is a Syrian refugee living in Tokyo. He's made friends there and learned Japanese. But he misses Syrian food.
Global Politics
Meet one of the handful of Syrians granted asylum in Japan
Zaher Said came to Turkey in July 2011. He's holding his Syrian passport, which is about to expire, in his home in Gaziantep, Turkey, on May 20, 2017.
Conflict
The bureaucratic nightmare of obtaining a Syrian passport abroad
Zainab Abdo
Conflict
Worldwide, nearly 100,000 college-ready Syrians can’t get higher education
Mizgin, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, and her family are living with Rachel Miller's family for the year.
Conflict
For this Syrian Yazidi family and their Jewish hosts, Passover is a refugee story
A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria, April 4, 2017.
Conflict
President Trump, you bombed Assad for killing ‘beautiful babies.’ Why won’t you accept refugee kids?
Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos
Conflict
Refugees suffer PTSD and attempt suicide in Greece
Um Mohammed, a Syrian refugee hailing from the southern Daraa region, stands in her wedding dress shop in Jordan's Zaatari camp. Expecting another child, Um Mohammed said she opened the shop a year and a half ago to help generate extra income for her grow
Conflict
This refugee camp in Jordan has turned into a frontier town for Syrians escaping war
Abu Radwan and his family converted to Christianity after they fled Syria to Lebanon. He says it's a genuine conversion, though he does say he thinks it might help him get resettled in the West.
Conflict
Why some Muslim Syrian refugees are converting to Christianity
A protester holds a Syrian opposition flag during a sit-in against the Syrian regime, in front of the UNDP office in Amman, Jordan.
Conflict
After three years of vetting, this Syrian refugee is giving up on moving to the US
Jim Estil stands with a Syrian couple he's helped resettle in Guelf, Canada. They're pointing out the Danby Applicances logo on their microwave; Estil runs the Danby factory and the couple works there.
Culture
Meet the millionaire teaching Syrian refugees how to be Canadian, his way
At the Cottbus Chamber of Crafts trainees enrolled in a refugee training program prepare for the day's metalworking assignment, in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany, Jan. 11, 2017.
Justice
Refugees are struggling to navigate Germany’s apprenticeship system
Over a million Syrians have fled their country and set up refugee camps in neighboring Lebanon.
Conflict
After Trump’s ban, Lebanon renews calls to send back Syrian refugees
People gather to pray in baggage claim during a protest against the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump's executive order, at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 29, 2017.
Justice
From Malala to Nike, here’s how the world is reacting to Trump’s immigration ban (QUOTES)
After Noor (right) fled Syria with her family, her husband began to be abusive. She now receives counseling and health services at this women's center in Jordan.
Conflict
A women’s health center for Syrian refugees is helping Jordanian women, too
Golzow mayor Frank Schütz, left, leans over to whisper a question to Rasha Haimoud during a holiday concert. She and her husband, Ahmad Haimoud, are refugees who settled in the small former East German town after escaping the war in their native Syria
Education
Worried about its future, this former East German city recruited Syrian refugees
Tareq Hadhad
Economics
A Syrian family finds sweet success in Canada
A Syrian refugee woman, who is stuck between the Jordanian and Syrian borders, holds her child near the town of Ruwaished, in the Hadalat area, east of the capital Amman, May 4, 2016.
Conflict
What 2017 could bring for millions of displaced Syrians
A Syrian class in Istanbul. Many of the students hadn't attending school for years.
Conflict
Syrian parents in Turkey worry their kids are losing their culture
Tima Kurdi (middle), holds up her nephew Sherwan Kurdi as she welcomes her brother Mohammed Kurdi (R), and his family at Vancouver International airport in Vancouver, British Columbia, December 28, 2015.
Conflict
When Canadian citizens sponsor Syrian refugees, things can get complicated
Hamzeh Mourad and his daughter, Houda. The Syrian family arrived in Canada last December with nothing but their clothes and $800.
Conflict
Syrian refugees in Canada face their first month without state money
Najibullah Zahedi (left) is a refugee from Afghanistan who resettled in Georgia with his family. He's a student at the Lantern Project, run by Luke Keller, where he carved the US Congress seal.
Economics
Ban Muslims? These Christians in Georgia say that would be a big mistake.
The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Bremen, Germany.
Music
Amid rising refugee tensions, a Syrian expat orchestra gives back
Conflict
Syrian refugee children play with Pope Francis and tell him about their new lives in Italy
Agence France-Presse
Lebanon doesn’t want Syrian refugees getting too comfortable, even in winter
Jumana Jaber's project called "Chemo Therapy and Chemical Weapons." The Syrian artist says it juxtaposes her experience with breast cancer in 2006 with the Syrian government's attacks on its people now.
Arts
A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn’t back home
Bill Moore and Judith Fearing are members of Nelson Friends of Refugees. They've raised money and secured an apartment for a family of Syrian refugees. All they need now are the refugees. But they're still waiting.
Conflict
Some Canadians really want to sponsor Syrian refugees. Turns out it’s harder than they thought.
Ghaith is a Syrian refugee living in Beirut. He can't work there but now he can earn a living as an online Arabic teacher.
Education
This startup helps Syrian refugees earn a living. All they need is a laptop.
A girl walks past a map illustrating part of Europe, at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border in Greece.
Conflict
By the numbers: Seeking asylum in Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) chats with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23, 2016.
Economics
International leaders are meeting in Istanbul for the first World Humanitarian Summit
Protesting migrants pushed an abandoned train wagon toward the border during a protest on May 18, 2016, at Idomeni camp. Clashes ensued between Greek police, who fired tear gas and stun grenades and immigrants.
Conflict
Photos: Protests, violence and tears at the unofficial refugee camp in Idomeni
A group of activists march down a street with a large banner that reads, STAND TOGETHER MONTANA.
Global Politics
Small-town America is arguing over whether to welcome Syria’s refugees or fear them
Moa'yad Al Saur, 20, from Damsacus, Syria, moved into a train parked at Idomeni station. He studied economics in Syria but fled because he didn't want to fight in the Syrian Army. His brother arrived in Germany already and his parents are still in Syria.
Conflict
Trapped in Greece, these refugees wait, just before another frontier
Ali Jaffari and his wife, Wajiha, and son Shayan
Economics
For long-suffering refugees, a three-star respite
Sezar Hajmusa, 10, from Homs, Syria
Conflict
Photos: In Athens, an abandoned hotel has become a refuge for asylum-seekers
Rows of shelters in a new refugee camp in Grande-Synthe in northern France, March 8, 2016.
Conflict
Now that France has opened a better camp, these migrants face more existential issues
Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA), waits in a courtroom for his trial to be charged with incitement over Facebook posts in a court in Dresden, Germany, April 19, 2016.
Global Politics
German far-right leader on trial for a Facebook post comparing refugees to cattle
"When you are pregnant you have pain and afterwards you have a baby that's there but when your baby died you have pain but are left with nothing." Saliha Ben Ali, 49, mother of 19-year-old Sabri Ben Ali, who died in Syria in December 2013. She's the lead
Conflict
These mothers lost their sons to ISIS. What have been their next steps?
Massoud Delawari, 14, boarded a boat from Turkey to Greece in February. The boat capsized two miles off the Turkish coast. He's still missing.
Conflict
A reporter says it’s surreal covering Afghan refugees because, decades ago, she was one of them
Grand Ayatollah Reza Hosseini Nassab (L) of the Imam Mahdi Islamic Center in Toronto has teamed up with Rabbi Cory Weiss of Temple Har Zion (R) to help raise funds for Syrian refugees moving to Canada.
Belief
The ayatollah and the rabbi who teamed up to help Syrian refugees
Anas Francis is reunited with his cousin Syrian refugee Laila Beylouneh, 13, at the Welcome Centre in Montreal, Quebec, December 12, 2015.
Global Politics
Canada is just better at welcoming Syrian refugees, but the US is trying to do more
The first of three ships carrying deportees from Greece arrived in the Turkish port town of Dikili on Monday, April 4, 2016.
Conflict
Europe is starting to close its doors to migrants and refugees
A Syrian national flag flutters next to the Islamic State's slogan at a roundabout where executions were carried out by ISIS militants in the city of Palmyra, in Homs Governorate, Syria April 1, 2016.
Conflict
They called the boys ‘buttons’ because pushing a button would be the last thing they did
Ann Corcoran speaks in the YouTube video she recorded for The Center for Security Policy, a controveral far right think tank founded by Frank Gaffney.
Conflict
How an environmental lobbyist became an influential anti-refugee blogger
Conflict
Daby Touré’s new record ‘Amonafi’ is an homage to the displaced
Syrian child's drawing
Conflict
Here’s how Syrian children draw their lives
Aicha Hassan left Syria for Lebanon for years ago. She doesn't want to stay in Lebanon, but "I don't intend to go back to Syria, either, even if things get better."
Conflict
For these Syrian women, their 20s have been defined by war
Syrian filmmaker and satirist Firas Alshater says Europe will embrace its new refugees, but it just might take a while.
Justice
He trusts you. Do you trust this Syrian refugee?
Tourists walk past life preservers on the beaches of Kos, Greece.
Conflict
Bikinis and lifevests: Indelible images from an island shared by tourists, refugees
Afghan migrants arriving by boat on the Greek island of Lesbos. Under the new plan, all such migrants would be automatically deported to Turkey.
Conflict
The EU plan is a ‘death blow’ to refugee rights, says Amnesty International
Abdallah Abu-Bakr Al-Ghazouli fled Darfur in 2007. He's tried to get refugee status in Lebanon since. Now he and some other Sudanese asylum seekers are camping out 100 feet from the UNHCR office in Beirut.
Conflict
In Lebanon, if you’re not a Syrian it’s even harder to get refugee status
VUB campus Etterbeek
Education
A Belgian campus puts out a welcome mat for refugees