The EU and its member states should continue providing support to respond to the massive Syrian refugee crisis and make sure the funding arrives where it is most needed, said MEPs who met with Syrian refugees in Jordan this week. The delegation also called on Jordan and other neighbouring countries ...

On the 21th of January, 620 Syrian refugees arrived in Port Said after a long boat trip of about 30 hours. Those new comers are part of the 300 000 Syrian refugees in Egypt that escape the shelling and the bad condition of life during the war. In Port Said and Port Fuad, the Syrians get help from a ...

CAIRO – Last year, Omar Haidar arrived in Egypt. As bombs rattled entire neighborhoods, the 26-year old hotel manager fled his family’s village in the hard-hit suburbs of Damascus. After participating in protests, Haidar was arrested by Syrian military security in August 2011. After his release, he...

At first glance, Al-Shami Shawerma could be just another Egyptianized Syrian sandwich shop catering to the lunch rush around Hosary Square in the 6th of October settlement in Giza. But the Syrian dialect of this new restaurant’s owner, Nader Abu Waseem, tells a different story. Three months ago, ...

Rula Deeb, 26, was born in Damascus and calls Syria her home. But after months of government bombings, indiscriminate violence and rising scarcity of basic goods, Deeb, whose grandparents fled Gaza for Syria in 1948, felt she could no longer safely stay. As a Syrian with Palestinian refugee docum...

Beirut,15 March 2013-During his last visit to Lebanon, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres reiterated his call for governments to create special funds to support Syrian refugees and the countries that host them.Speaking to journalists in Beirut on the second anniversary of the start o...

News Stories, 6 March 2013 © UNHCR/N.Daoud A line of Syrian refugee women, some carrying children, cross into Jordan from southern Syria. The outflow this year has been staggering. GENEVA, March 6 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency, citing data received from UNHCR's offices in the Syria region, on...

Official Justice Ministry statistics issued Tuesday revealed that 113 Egyptians married Syrian women in 2012, and 57 in the first quarter of 2013, totaling 170 marriages. “Procedures require that the Syrian Embassy approves the marriage, and that the wife has residence in Egypt,” said ministry sp...

Egypt has become home to a growing number of Syrian refugees who are struggling to find work and support their families in an already-difficult economic climate. A young man in his twenties stands at a stall selling Syrian textiles in a temporary market in Faisal Street, Giza, folding sheets and ...

The Government of the People’s Republic of China has generously contributed USD 1 million to UNHCR. This contribution will be used primarily for provision of emergency humanitarian supplies to Syrian refugees in Turkey and will contribute to winterization of the refugee camps. Management of the firs...