ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Canada is ready to help the Syrian interim government in establishing an inclusive administration, ...

UNHCR congratulates Canada on the arrival in the country of the 10,000th Syrian refugee as part of its humanitarian programme to admit 25,000 Syrian refugees. The 10,000th Syrian refugee arrived on ...

Image of the toddler lying face down on a beach near the fashionable Turkish resort of Bodrum became a shocking symbol of 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 ...

Fresh calls have been made to treat refugees with compassion as the world marked 10 years since the death of Alan Kurdi, the ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Canadian couple canceled their wedding and used that money to sponsor a Syrian refugee family. Samantha Jackson and Farzin Yousefian originally planned a traditional wedding ...

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada's government will inevitably have to cut some corners on security screening to achieve its ambitious goal of bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year-end, said ...

The campaign marks the 5th anniversary of the Syrian war. — -- When Gunter Nitsch was 11 years old, the only thoughts on his mind were feeding his hunger and keeping warm. In 1949, he and his ...

(Reuters) - Canada will take in more than 6,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015, missing its already delayed target of accepting 10,000 by year-end, the Canadian government said on Thursday.

Canada has announced it will double the amount of Syrian refugees it admits in 2016. John McCallum, the minister of immigration and citizenship, said Monday from the Jordanian capital of Amman that ...