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          Refugees

          The latest news and stories on refugees and asylum seekers

          Displaced Sudanese flee on animal-drawn carts following attacks in mid-April, blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur. Reuters

          More than four million refugees have fled Sudan war, UNHCR says

          MENAJune 03, 2025
          Shah Salim Sajjadi and Safiollah Mohammadi piloted a migrant boat in which a woman and child died. Photo: NCA

          Two Afghans jailed over migrant boat crossing that killed woman and child

          UKJune 03, 2025
          Mohammad Saaid Abdalnabi with his wife Reham and daughter Mirna in their apartment in Maryland. Nilanjana Gupta / The National

          From Syria's war to US uncertainty: A refugee caught in Trump's aid freeze

          USMay 30, 2025
          Zahir, an Afghan migrant who arrived in the UK by small boat, now wants to smuggle himself out of the UK for a restart. Photo: Supplied

          Quitting an 'island of strangers': How one Afghan is plotting to escape the UK

          UKMay 14, 2025
          Migrants on a small boat attempt to cross the English Channel. Getty Images

          UK urged to cut migrant hotel stays to free up overseas aid budget

          UKApril 17, 2025
          Internally displaced Sudanese rest near the town of Tawila in Darfur on Sunday, after the Zamzam camp in El Fasher fell under control of the Rapid Support Forces. AFP

          Sudan's civilians bear heaviest losses in two years of brutal war

          MENAApril 14, 2025
          Hakan Barac arrived by small boat but has now been jailed for glorifying ISIS. South Wales Police/PA Wire

          Extremist jailed for posting ISIS videos after arriving in UK

          UKApril 08, 2025
          Fighters linked to the Popular Mobilisation Forces carry images of a comrade killed in US air strikes in western Iraq. EPA

          Kurds gain asylum in UK over threat from Iraqi Shiite militia

          MENAMarch 25, 2025
          The funeral of three migrants who died in the English Channel in November 2021, taking place in Ranya, in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. Getty Images

          Teenager made harrowing call for rescue in deadliest English Channel crossing tragedy

          UKMarch 03, 2025
          Palestinians in Gaza sit around a fire in the rubble of destroyed buildings during the Israeli offensive. Reuters

          Labour MPs lobby Keir Starmer to allow Gaza families into UK

          UKFebruary 20, 2025
          The US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency at the southern border 'to repel the disastrous invasion of our country'. AFP

          On immigration, Trump’s America and Britain are in a race to the bottom

          CommentFebruary 13, 2025
          Refugees at Zaatari camp, which shelters about 80,000 Syrians on the border with Jordan. AFP

          UN refugee chief calls for support for Syrians to return home

          UAEFebruary 12, 2025
          Failed asylum seekers, foreign criminals and other immigration offenders being deported from the UK. Photo: UK Home Office

          UK migration crackdown results in deportation surge

          UKFebruary 10, 2025
          French police officers stand on the shore as migrants attempt to cross the English Channel. AFP

          UK introduces terror-style laws to stop people smuggling plotters

          UKJanuary 30, 2025
          Residents were happy to be leaving Rukban camp, where many had been living for more than a decade. Matt Kynaston for The National.

          Syrians in remote desert refugee camp hail Assad’s downfall - but cannot leave

          MENAJanuary 30, 2025
          Getty / Nick Donaldson

          Syrian refugees deserve a safe country to return to

          CommentJanuary 24, 2025
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