The United Nations' refugee agency will seek additional resources for Turkey, the world's largest host of refugees, and push for more resettlement, its head said on Saturday, as the civil war in Syria is set to enter its sixth year. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called for a...

The new head of the UN’s refugee agency visited a camp in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Filippo Grandi, who became the High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this month, arrived at the camp in Gaziantep province’s Nizip district where some of the near 2.5 million refugees housed by Turkey are st...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 25 September 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Additional Speaker: Amin Awad, Director UNHCR Bureau for Middle East & N.Africa / Regional Refugee Co...

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt has been commemorating World Refugee Day with Syrian refugees in Turkey, which has overtaken Pakistan to become the world's largest refugee-hosting nation with more than 1.77 million in urban areas and government-run camps. The Special Envoy and UN High Com...

Fifteen years into a millennium that many of us hoped would see an end to war, a spreading global violence has come to threaten the very foundations of our international system. More people fled last year than at any other time in our records. Around the world, almost 60 million have been displac...

The U.N.’s refugee chief on June 18 urged the international community, including Western states, to open up their borders and follow Turkey’s example in hosting Syrian and Iraqi refugees. “Usually, there is no limit to the generosity of the less rich. But unfortunately the richest countries in th...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 16 June 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. New fighting in northern Syria has seen 23,135 refugees fleeing across the border into Turkey's Sanliurf...

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 ...

Officials said Turkey and UN refugee agency will cooperate to deliver 12 mobile clinics, 10 ambulances and 10 vaccination units. The Turkish Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and UNHCR signed an agreement Tuesday to provide humanitarian services to needy Syrian refugee...

Speaking at the "Seventh Annual Ambassadors Conference", UN's top refugee official applauded Turkey's hospitality toward Syrian refugees. Turkey plays an extremely important role in the protection of refugees, the UN's top refugee official said Tuesday. Addressing the "Seventh Annual Ambassadors C...