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Opinions
Don’t Respond to Refugees with Fear and Bigotry
Gerry Simpson Senior Researcher and Advocate, Refugee ProgramGerrySimpsonHRW On November 21, after some United States governors announced that they didn’t…
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The Fear-mongers’ Bad Advice
The horrendous Paris attacks have provided certain European and U.S. politicians with an irresistible opportunity to attempt to close the door on…
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News
Turkey: Syrians Pushed Back at the Border
(Istanbul) – Turkey has all but closed its borders to Syrian asylum seekers and is summarily pushing back Syrians detected…
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US boots on the ground in Syria: 50 special forces troops to be dispatched in fight against Isis
The US is to station troops in Syria to assist in the fight against Isis for the first time, a…
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Islamic State takes over town in Syria’s western Homs province: monitor
Islamic State fighters seized the Syrian town of Maheen in Homs province from government forces on Sunday, a monitoring group…
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Russia/Syria: Possibly Unlawful Russian Air Strikes
(New York) – At least two air strikes in northern Homs on October 15, 2015, that local residents believed to…
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Syrian migrants face Kafkaesque nightmare in search for safety
The Aksaray neighborhood of Istanbul is a veritable smugglers’ den, where you can watch asylum seekers and migrants huddling and…
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Greece: Attacks on Boats Risk Migrant Lives
(Athens) – Armed masked men have been disabling boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers in the Aegean Sea and pushing…
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Confronting Russia now is too late, too difficult
Recent American press reports are full of opinions stating that the current American administration’s way of dealing with the Syrian…
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Breaking news
Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them
Several senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq,…
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