The United States admitted its 10,000th Syrian refugee this week in a resettlement program announced by President Obama last fall, according to The White House. Under pressure from Europe and ...

The United States has welcomed asylum-seekers and refugees throughout most of its history, of course, and so there already exists a process through which applicants must go. (In 2013, the United ...

DELAWARE (0) Democratic Gov. Jack Markell is standing by his support for President Obama's decision to provide asylum for Syrian refugees in the United States, despite Republican calls not to ...

Syrian refugees, who fled to Lebanon more than a decade ago to escape war, violence and persecution, have slowly begun to ...

The State Department spokesperson said the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is working to provide permanent resettlement for nearly 30,000 Syrian refugees by 2014, "and the United States has ...

As the United States meets its goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees, the International Rescue Committee explains how the resettlement process really works. December 23, 2015 The United States has ...

She’s only been in the United States for three and a half months, but it was a goal she waited a long time for. “My uncle applied for us to come to the United States since like 2008," said ...

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said Thursday that the international community and financial institutions ...

An estimated 2.5 million refugees worldwide will need to be resettled next year, the UN said Tuesday, at a time when the United States but also other nations are shrinking resettlement access.

The report comes at a time when humanitarian groups are facing budget cuts from the United States and other traditional Western donors. FILE – Syrian refugee Ahmed al-Kassem and his family drive a ...

Migrants walk away from a beach after their inflatable dinghy was stopped and slashed by the French gendarmes preventing ...

After days of mounting tensions between Iran and Israel—and rising fears that the United States might directly join the fight ...