Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to bring in 25,000 Syrians within a matter of months, but it's not just his government that's handling the massive task of resettling the refugees.

BEIRUT — The move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country and also help encourage investments, the head of the U.N. refugee ...

GENEVA, Dec 11 (UNHCR) - The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed news of the arrival in Canada last night of the first group of Syrian refugees under a recently announced humanitarian programme. The ...

DAVOS: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “welcomes” Syrian refugees arriving in Toronto not as asylum seekers but as citizens. Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, ...

The pressure had been building for days. Abdullah Kurdi, his wife Rehanna and children Ghalib, 4, and Alan, 2, were holed up ...

Ottawa, Nov 28 (AFP) A Syrian refugee who spent months in limbo in a budget terminal at a Malaysian airport has arrived in Vancouver after he was granted permanent residency by Canada, a government ...

Close to 1.5 million Syrian refugees have voluntarily returned to their home country over the past year. That extraordinary figure represents nearly one-quarter of all Syrians who fled fighting during ...