I arrived from Syria to Egypt last year by plane with my family – my wife and four children, and my mother, who unfortunately passed away two months ago. I decided to leave Aleppo because we were under siege. We hardly had any means of survival left. Food, water, electricity and gas became almost...

“All I need is to find work in order to survive. Can you find me work?” These are the first words of Nabila, a 42 year old widow, originally from the city of Homs in Syria. She came to Egypt by air via Beirut with her 20 year old son and 17 year old daughter in February 2013. “Back home in Syr...

Three years ago, there were few authentic Syrian restaurants in Egypt. “Now they are countless,” said Mohamed Belal, who helped to found one of Cairo’s first Syrian restaurant chains in 2004. Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, more than 190,000 Syrians have taken refuge in Egypt, brin...

Egypt is increasingly becoming a hub for illegal migration to Europe. This is Alexandria, one of the port cities of the Nile Delta. Many migrants and would-be migrants leave from this shore. They take fearful risks to cross the Mediterranean Sea. They’ve been driven by wars in Syria, Iraq and Dar...

GENEVA: More than 3,000 migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year, more than double the previous peak in 2011, the International Organisation for Migration said Monday. Europe is by far the most dangerous destination for “irregular” migrants, the organisation found in ...

The escalated insurgent violence in Iraq and Syria hax triggered a new form of terror known as "lone wolf" attacks, the head of the UN refugee agency says, warning against the impact of crises in the region The tragedies in Syria and Iraq are the source of "a new form of terror", the U.N. High ...

The Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) headquarters has announced that it dismissed Klo Htoo Baw operation commanders Brigadier General Saw Kyaw Thet and Colonel Saw San Aung on 21 July. The official order signed by the DKBA’s Chief of Staff General Saw Lah Pwe says, “Their affairs are no lo...

ဒီမိုကရေစီအကျိုးပြုကရင့်တပ်မတော်(DKBA)မှကလိုထူးဝါးစစ်ကွပ်ကဲရေးမှူးဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်စောကျော်သက်နှင့်ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီးစောဆန်းအောင် တို့ကိုဇူလိုင်လ(၂၁)ရက်နေ့မှစ၍ကလိုထူးဘောတပ်ဖွဲ့မှDKBAမှအပြီးအပိုင်ထုတ်ပယ်လိုက်သည်ဟု DKBA ဌာနချုပ်ရုံးကထုတ်ပြန်လိုက် သည်။ ၎င်းတို့နှင့်ပက်သက်၍ကိစ္စရပ်များကိုမိမိတို့တပ်ဖွဲ့...

Yangon, 25 July — The government and ethnic armed groups expressed optimism Saturday about breaking an impasse on a draft national ceasefire deal at the next round of talks, despite holding different views on the number of signatories to the truce deal. Government and ethnic negotiators the previ...

ကညီဂံၢ်ခီၣ်ထံးတၢ်ကရၢကရိတဖၣ်ဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်ဝဲကမံးတံာ်လၢကတီခိၣ်ရိာ်မဲမၤဘၣ်လိာ်ဖိးဒ့ဝဲတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤလၢပှၤလီၢ်အိၣ်ကမှံသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အ ဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.ကမံးတံာ်အံၤဘၣ်တၢ်ဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်အီၤဒီးကရၢဖိ(၉)ဂၤဒ်အမ့ၢ်စီၤလ့ကွ့ဒူ(ခိၣ်နၢ်တဲကျဲၤသကိးတၢ်)ကိၤအီၤစဲအူ(တၢ်ဝံစိာ်တီဆှၢဒီးတၢ်ဆဲး ကျိးပှၤဘၣ်မူဘၣ်ဒါ),မါသ့စီၣ်(သွံပှၤတဝၢတၢ်ကရၢကရ...