Refugees

KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, BANGLADESH - It was after Mohib Ullah scored his first political victories that the death threats began in earnest. On a recent morning, the Rohingya refugee leaned back on a plastic chair in the…

WASHINGTON - The FBI has arrested a member of an armed right-wing militia group accused of illegally detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Saturday.Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 70, was arrested for illegal…

CAIRO - Recent clashes between rival Libyan militias for control of the capital Tripoli have displaced more than 18,000 people, the U.N. said, and prompted the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to warn Tuesday that she…

WASHINGTON - White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release migrants detained at the border into so-called sanctuary cities such as San Francisco to retaliate against President Donald Trump’s…

TRIPOLI - Eastern forces and troops loyal to the Tripoli government battled on the outskirts of Libya’s capital on Wednesday as thousands of residents fled from the fighting.The Libyan National Army (LNA) forces of eastern…

TRIPOLI/GENEVA - Casualties from the battle for Libya’s capital mounted on Tuesday while Islamic State killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadis may exploit renewed chaos.Medical facilities reported 47 people…

The Alan Kurdi picked up 64 migrants last Wednesday. Neither Italy nor Malta will allow the ship to dock. It’s the latest standoff between national authorities and migrant rescue boats in the Med. The policy of “zero tolerance” towards…

Even by the government’s degraded standards, this one takes a moment to sink in. It has been a dependable truism for two decades of refugee policy in Australia, that every time you think things can’t get any worse, they immediately do.…

BEIRUT - More than 40,000 displaced people in northwestern Syria have seen their camps flooded by heavy rains in the past three days, a United Nations spokesman said Tuesday.Around 14 camps were affected in the northwestern…

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - Taking drastic action over illegal immigration, President Donald Trump moved Saturday to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, whose citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming U.S. resources…

Japan marked a fall in applicants seeking refugee status in 2018 for the first time in eight years amid stricter rules, government data showed Wednesday.The number of applicants fell approximately 47 percent from the previous year…

NAIROBI - Kenya plans to shut a refugee camp that is home to nearly a quarter of a million people, mostly Somalis, in the next few months, according to an internal U.N. document seen by AFP Tuesday,The three-decade-old Dadaab camp…

It had the appearance of a scandal in the making.On March 12, a late-night scuffle broke out at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, causing an outcry over the alleged “inhumane” treatment of a person being held there.That…

DHAKA - The United Nations said Monday it was examining how to assist Bangladesh in relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island despite warnings it could trigger fresh humanitarian upheaval.Dhaka says shifting…

Two Saudi sisters who say they were beaten and treated like slaves by their brothers and father have been granted asylum in an undisclosed country. The women, aged 18 and 20, ran away from their family last September while on holiday in…

BAGHOUZ, SYRIA - U.S.-backed Syrian forces were sweeping on Thursday through the final enclave that had been held by Islamic State fighters, and said they would declare the group defeated once a search for hidden mines and…

Liberal senator Linda Reynolds has told ABC’s Q&A program that the passage of last month’s medevac bill for critically sick refugees made her “almost physically ill” because she “lived through terrorism and … the Bali bombings”.…

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to close the U.S. immigration agency’s overseas locations, according to current and former officials and an internal memo, in a move affecting offices that…

CAIRO - A U.N. humanitarian agency warned Tuesday that thousands of Yemeni civilians caught in fierce clashes between warring factions are trapped in an embattled northern governorate, an area that has become another flash point in…

SYDNEY - A refugee soccer player who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition standoff between Australia and the Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday.Hakeem al-Araibi, 25,…