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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Syrian refugees

Archbishop Butros Meriati leads the Christmas morning mass at the Armenian Catholic Church in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, on December 25, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
December 14, 2024, 7:58 am
Can Syria’s dwindling Christian community survive under jihadi rebel rule?
Once loyal to the regime, Syrian Christians have ostensibly joined the national celebration after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. But can they trust the new Islamist rulers’ pledges?
By Gianluca Pacchiani
A Syrian girl walks down a street in Berlin while wearing a Syrian opposition flag, December 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
December 11, 2024, 8:21 pm
European countries suspend Syrians’ asylum cases, amid calls for deportations
States say they need time to re-assess risk of persecution in post-Assad Syria, as former refugees dread possible forced return; Austrian interior minister orders deportation plans
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on December 11, 2024, after it was stormed by opposition factions. (Aaref WATAD/AFP)
December 11, 2024, 5:34 pm
After fall of dynasty, tomb of Assad’s father set on fire in Syria hometown
Ordinary citizens wander through home of ousted president, loot luxury goods; Syrian refugees stream back home through Turkish border, hope for better life
By Agencies
Syrian families arrive to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate, near the town of Antakya, southern Turkey, December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu)
December 9, 2024, 5:08 pm
Throngs of Syrian refugees start returning from Turkey, Lebanon after Assad’s fall
People express joy over end of brutal regime, as Turkish officials hope many will return home; Germany and Austria suspend Syrian asylum requests
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A member of the Syrian community has painted a heart in the colors of Syria on her cheek as she attends a rally on December 8, 2024 in Berlin, Germany, to celebrate the end of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's rule. (Ralf Hirschberger/AFP)
December 9, 2024, 4:12 am
Syrians across Europe barely able to contain their joy at Assad’s downfall
In cities including Berlin, London, Istanbul and Athens, opposition supporters take to the streets to celebrate: ‘We’re happy. The dictatorship is over. Assad has gone’
By Céline LE PRIOUX and Frank Zeller
Illustrative: A migrant boat in Mediterranean waters east of Cape Greco in southeastern Cyprus in August 2023 (Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JCC) / AFP)
September 23, 2023, 5:33 pm
Lebanon rescues Syrians in sinking migrant boat
Authorities say they rescued 27 people aboard a vessel that was going down off the country’s coast
By AFP
The Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees near the Jordanian city of Mafraq, about 80 kilometers north of the capital Amman, on October 17, 2022. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
July 19, 2023, 1:19 pm
UN World Food Programme cuts aid to Syrians in Jordan, citing funding shortfall
Monthly cash allowances for all 119,000 refugees in Zaatari and Azraq camps to be reduced from $32 to $21
By AFP
File: Syrian children run through the snow in the Syrian refugee camp of al-Hilal in the village of al-Taybeh near Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on January 20, 2022. (AFP)
April 28, 2023, 10:16 am
‘I’d rather die’: Syrians in Lebanon fear prison, torture if deported home
With civil war winding down, Lebanon begins crackdown on undocumented refugees as domestic pressure mounts to send back those who poured across border a decade ago
By Aya Iskandarani and Rouba El Husseini
65-year-old Atari Kales mourns for her daughter-in-law and two grandchildren near the collapsed building where they were trapped in Antakya, Turkey, February 11, 2023. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)
February 12, 2023, 5:03 pm
As death toll tops 33,000, sorrow turns to tension over Turkey’s earthquake response
In some areas, locals claim it took days for help to arrive, accuse government of political, ethnic discrimination; others angry at burden of Syrian war refugees
By Justin Spike
IsraAid CEO Yotam Polizer aids a Syrian refugee in Lesbos, Greece, in 2015 (courtesy of IsraAid)
January 25, 2023, 7:42 pm
Activist who took Israeli disaster aid global wins humanitarian prize
Yotam Polizer heads IsraAid, NGO with 320 staff that provides help at disasters worldwide, will receive prestigious Charles Bronfman Prize
By Nathan Jeffay
File: People look at a site damaged by Turkish airstrikes that hit an electricity station in the village of Taql Baql, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)
December 10, 2022, 7:19 pm
What’s at stake as Turkey threatens to escalate conflict with Syrian fighters?
After deadly blast in Istanbul last month, attributed by Turkey to illegal Kurdish groups, specter of incursion raised as Ankara responds with airstrikes against militants in Syria
By Suzan Fraser and Bassam Mroue
Syrian children play soccer near their tented homes at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/ Bilal Hussein, File)
August 15, 2022, 8:01 pm
Syrian minister claims his country is ready to repatriate its refugees from Lebanon
But UN High Commissioner for Refugees and rights groups oppose involuntary repatriation, say the practice risks endangering the refugees
By AP
Syrian refugee families walk back into a refugee camp after running errands in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
July 21, 2022, 11:36 am
For Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the future is uncertain amid threat of deportation
Many fear for safety if forced to return to war-torn homeland; Lebanon, undergoing one of worst economic meltdowns in modern history, plans to deport 15,000 refugees per month
By Kareem Chehayeb
Syrian "Arada" folklore dancers of the "Bab al-Hara" troupe arrive at a venue to perform for a celebration for the graduation of two of the sons of one of their members, Fahed Shehadeh, from universities, in Jordan's capital Amman on June 24, 2022. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
July 11, 2022, 12:36 am
Syrian refugees in Jordan bolster income, preserve culture through dance
‘This dance is a very important part of our Syrian identity, heritage, culture and our daily life; we must preserve and teach it to our children and grandchildren,’ says one dancer
By Kamal Taha
FILE - A displaced Syrian man and his son ride a motorcycle, as they drive between the tents at a refugee camp, in Bar Elias, in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, March 5, 2021. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)
July 6, 2022, 7:34 pm
Lebanon gears up to send back Syrian refugees despite pushback from rights groups
Minister presents ‘humane, honorable, patriotic’ repatriation plan to President Michel Aoun; UN agency tells Lebanon to respect exiles’ right to return of their own volition
By Kareem Chehayeb
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