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The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria is being viewed as an opportunity by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to return millions of Syrian refugees amid growing public resentment. However, it remains uncertain whether those who have built new lives in cities like Istanbul are prepared to return.

EXCLUSIVE: Author John Vaillant tells The Independent that human-driven climate change has created dangerous wildfire conditions and thousands of ‘climate refugees’ in the city of Los Angeles

After the fall of Bashar al-Assad and his family’s 50-year dynasty of fear, several European countries announced a suspension of asylum application procedures. Germany, France and Sweden are among the countries which have also paused all pending asylum requests from Syrians. Austria, meanwhile, has signalled it will soon order refugees…

Refugees tell of attacks on darker-skinned people and non-Arab groups by Rapid Support Forces and its allies in Darfur

It’s all very well to talk of ‘smashing’ the gangs. But until there are other routes, the dangerous crossings will keep happening, says Guardian writer Diane Taylor

Biden fulfilled a promise to restore the refugee resettlement program but also cracked down on the right to asylum

UN Human Rights Committee ruling covers cases involving 25 refugees who endured years of arbitrary detention.

UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention camps

Australia remains responsible for the arbitrary detention of refugees and asylum seekers in offshore processing facilities in Nauru, a UN committee has ruled.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia breached international human rights law by detaining a group of young asylum seekers in immigration detention in Nauru.

A Russian-German couple murdered a Ukrainian mother and grandmother to abduct a five-week-old baby and raise her as their own.