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Zaatari refugee camp is the largest of its kind in Jordan. (AFP/File)

December 9th, 2015 - 03:30 GMT

Jordan says number of stranded Syrians ‘exaggerated’

Jordan's Government Spokesperson Mohammad Momani defended his country's open border policy amid reports of large numbers of Syrian refugees stranded along the border.

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December 8th, 2015 - 01:00 GMT

UN: 12,000 Syrians stuck at Jordanian border

"Refugees GO HOME" is sprayed onto a wall in Sigmaringen, southern Germany, on November 17, 2015. (AFP/Thomas Warnack)

November 17th, 2015 - 03:30 GMT

UN asks Europe to not retract promise to host refugees

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October 20th, 2015 - 01:30 GMT

More than 500,000 refugees arrived in Greece since January 2015

Asylum seekers are rescued from boats that capsized in the Mediterranean Sea. Image used for illustrative purposes. (Al Bawaba/File)

August 29th, 2015 - 02:00 GMT

Three suspects arrested in Libya for involvement in capsized boat crisis

Members of the Libyan Red Crescent, wearing protective white clothing and masks, collect the body of a migrant that had washed ashore on a beach on Aug. 28, 2015 in the port town of Zuwara west of Tripoli. (AFP/Mahmud Turkia)

August 28th, 2015 - 07:23 GMT

Death toll exceeds 200 from capsized boats off Libyan coast

The number of asylum-seekers in industrialized countries rose by nearly half last year. (File)

March 26th, 2015 - 08:21 GMT

Syria and Iraq conflicts drive up asylum claims to 22-year high

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July 11th, 2014 - 02:32 GMT

UN Refugee agency calls on EU to provide asylum to more Syrians

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February 12th, 2014 - 01:20 GMT

Iraq violence displaces 300,000 from Anbar province

Britain may begin accepting vulnerable Syrian refugees "within days" under the government's new plans. Here, Syrian refugee children pose for a picture in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp (AFP/Syria).

January 28th, 2014 - 07:44 GMT

UK poised to accept hundreds of "vulnerable" Syrian refugees

YEMEN, SANAA : An image grab taken from an AFPTV video shows people heading to Sanaa International Airport as they prepare to leave Yemen on August 6, 2013. The United States ordered Americans to leave Yemen "immediately" amid a worldwide alert linked to electronic intercepts from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. AFP PHOTO/AFPTV

August 6th, 2013 - 03:46 GMT

UK withdraws all Yemen Embassy staff

Syrian children wait in line to collect a free “Iftar” meal in the northern city of Raqqa during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on July 14, 2013 (Source: AFP/MEZAR MATAR)

July 15th, 2013 - 05:39 GMT

Where's the Ramadan Karim? Egypt denies Syrian refugees during holy month

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August 28th, 2012 - 11:53 GMT

Number of Syrian refugees on the rise