Refugee Camp

The Syrian army has attacked Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, killing two refugees and a Syrian, and wounding a child. Abdul-Basit al-Bitar was killed when an artillery shell...

Iqbal al-Asaad, 20, a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon has graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar as the youngest medical practitioner in the world. Iqbal, who finished secondary...

About 1,354 Palestinians, including 1,201 men and 153 women, have been killed by the Syrian regime since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, Action Group for Palestinians in Syria...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The repercussions of the revolution in Syria have overshadowed the lives of thousands of Palestinians living in refugee camps in the conflict torn country. Many of these...

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said that 15 per cent of the Palestinian refugees in Syria have fled from...

Jordan's King Abdullah II has expressed his fears that demographic changes in the kingdom could see him being toppled from the throne in the next year or so. This...

A senior Fatah leader in the Ain El Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was shot dead on Friday evening. A Palestinian source in the camp said that unknown...

The Working Group for the Palestinians in Syria reported on Saturday that a Palestinian employee of the Palestine Embassy in Damascus has been tortured to death in prison. The...

At least 15 Palestinians have died from starvation since last September in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, just south of Damascus, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) told...

The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (EMOHR) and the Working Group for the Palestinians of Syria (WGPS) have published a visual report about the humanitarian crisis in the Yarmouk...

Dozens of angry Palestinian youth have protested on Sunday against the lack of services in the Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. The protest marks a new phase of public...

Human Rights Watch has issued a statement on Saturday saying it regrets that Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died "without facing justice for his role in the...

The Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Ibrahim Saif, said on Wednesday that his country needs about $3 billion to cover the costs of hosting Syrian refugees this...

The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, announced on Wednesday that his country is pledging $500 million in aid to help fund the UN's humanitarian efforts for millions...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called on Wednesday for the siege on the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria to be lifted. It insisted that the militias in and...

Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Khalid bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah met with Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on the sidelines of the second international donors'...

The authorities in Cairo have detained 42 Syrians in Alexandria, including children and a pregnant woman, pending their deportation to Turkey. Following the military coup in Egypt, Turkey is...

The United States has announced a donation of $123 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The UN agency said on Tuesday that...

A spokesperson of the US State Department, Marie Harf, has described the humanitarian situation for Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus, as well as for Syrians...

The British embassy in Amman announced that the United Kingdom will provide $25 million to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to support Palestinian refugees in Syria as...