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Lyon restaurant serves up Syrian menu to launch Refugee Food Festival
15 Jun 2017 After last year's success, the festival goes international with events in 13 European cities, starting in the capital of French gastronomy. -
Syrian family risks all to flee Raqqa as violence surges
13 Jun 2017 As conflict advances on Raqqa, thousands have braved minefields and armed groups to flee the fighting and worsening humanitarian conditions inside the city. -
Convoy with UNHCR aid reaches isolated Syrian town
30 May 2017 The multi-agency convoy delivered vital food and medicines and other aid to 44,000 residents cut off in Jayrud and surrounding villages since last June. -
As war grinds on in Yemen, Somali refugees eye return
19 May 2017 Facing danger and growing hardship in Yemen, some 30,600 Somalis have reportedly returned home since war broke out in 2015. -
Jordan's Azraq becomes world's first clean energy refugee camp
17 May 2017 New solar plant is the first of its kind in a refugee setting, and will transform the lives of thousands of Syrians living in harsh desert environment. -
Displaced by war, Yemenis face hardship and hunger
16 May 2017 UNHCR preparing for possible fresh wave of displacement from Hudaydah, as families resort to begging to ward off starvation. -
After packed boats take on water, 20 feared dead in Mediterranean
16 May 2017 Rescuers save 500 men, women and children after four rubber boats founder in choppy waters between Libya and Italy in latest sea tragedy. -
As South Sudan crisis deepens, more funds needed for refugees
15 May 2017 UNHCR and its partners launch a major new humanitarian appeal, seeking more than US$1.4 billion to provide vital aid to those fleeing fighting and hunger. -
Aleppo slowly progresses along road to recovery
11 May 2017 UNHCR's Amin Awad visits Homs and Aleppo and witnesses resilient spirits first hand.