GENEVA, Dec 11 (UNHCR) - The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed news of the arrival in Canada last night of the first group of Syrian refugees under a recently announced humanitarian programme. The ...

When Thuy Nguyen first greeted the anxious Syrian family at Toronto airport in January 2016, their meeting triggered a wave of memories. “It was very emotional,” says Thuy, 53. “I could empathize with ...

Welcome to Canada, Syrian refugees. Enjoy the furry convention. A group of Syrian refugees granted asylum in Canada found themselves sharing a space this week with the annual “Vancoufur” furry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Displaced Syrian families form a return convoy to their destroyed village. Moawia Atrash/picture alliance via Getty Images Close ...

The Canadian government has scaled back its ambitious plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in the country by the end of the year. The pledge to bring in the refugees was a campaign promise by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Syrian refugee found not criminally responsible for failing to stop at an Ontario accident that killed two men and severely ...

Ms. Kontar is a photographer and Syrian refugee. On the edge of my homeland, a line of cars stretched before me, with people’s faces peering out. They were about to return — their bags packed, stacked ...

“I teach refugees [English] and every week this student brings in food for the whole class,” Shrea Kumar, a volunteer teacher at Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS) in Ohio, captioned ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...

A Syrian refugee found not criminally responsible for failing to stop at an Ontario accident that killed two men and severely injured a third has received an absolute discharge, because he “does not ...