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News Articles: refugees

Afghan refugee girl Laylama is pictured during a September 2025 interview with AFP in Islamabad, where she was living after President Trump suspended refugee admissions to the U.S.

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Republicans are divided on Afghan immigrant policy after the National Guard shooting

The signs of Republican pushback come as President Trump has pursued a campaign of mass deportations and crackdown on migration from certain countries.

December 16, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Anusha Mathur
A woman clutches a U.S. flag as she and applicants from 20 countries prepare to take an oath of citizenship in commemoration of Independence Day during a naturalization ceremony in San Antonio in July 2025.

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  • USPS

How Trump is remaking one agency to aid his deportation push

The Trump administration's changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.

December 10, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
The historically Christian village of Al Ghassaniyeh, seen from olive groves at its foothills. After the old regime was ousted last December, displaced residents who returned to the village found strangers living in their homes.

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  • World

Syrians displaced by war are returning to find homes occupied by foreign fighters

Fighters have settled across northern Syria, surprising displaced Syrians who've tried to return to their homes. Nearly a year after the war's end, sorting out property ownership remains a pressing issue.

November 25, 2025
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Jawad Rizkallah
Mohammed Abu Daqqa, a 31-year-old Palestinian who left Gaza, scrolls through images on his phone at a refugee welcome center in Germany. He describes how he rode a jet ski across the Mediterranean to take refuge in Europe, and is determined to get his family out of Gaza.

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  • World

He left Gaza and fled to Europe on a jet ski. Now he hopes to bring his family

In an extraordinary journey, a Palestinian man used a jet ski to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe after he fled the war in Gaza.

November 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Tony Colapinto
In this photograph taken on September 2, 2025, Afghan refugee girl Shayma is pictured during an interview with AFP at her residence in Islamabad. Her family had been scheduled to fly to the U.S. in February, before the Trump administration suspended most refugee admissions.

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Trump administration sets lowest-ever cap on refugee admissions to U.S.

The lowest cap on refugees since the program was established in 1980 comes as the U.S. prioritizes resettling Afrikaners from South Africa.

October 30, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Iryna Schestova, 50, and her daughter, Liia Kazakova, 26, sit in the living room of a friend's home in Horenychi, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine. Kazakova is staying in the home instead of with her mother because she can't sleep at night listening to the sounds of war from her mother's apartment in central Kyiv.

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  • Europe

Millions of Ukrainians abroad hope to return home once Russia's invasion ends

Some Ukrainians have already returned after fleeing Russia's invasion, and almost half of the more than 5 million still abroad want to, according to a survey this year.

August 02, 2025
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By:
  • Claire Harbage and
  • Ross Peleh
Afghan refugees who had been living in Pakistan return to their homeland in Kandahar Province on May 7. Tens of thousands of refugees in Pakistan and Iran as well are being forced to return to Afghanistan.

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  • Global Health

Hard to imagine a worse time to deport Afghan refugees, human rights advocates say

There were 71,000 deportations in the first half of June alone, according to U.N. estimates. These Afghan refugees are returning to a country in the throes of a humanitarian crisis.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ruchi Kumar
Newly arrived South Africans listen to representatives from Homeland Security and the State Department deliver welcome statements in a hangar at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025 in Dulles, Va.

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  • USPS

First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically redrawn refugee program

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
White Afrikaaner South Africans demonstrate in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 15, 2025.

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  • Africa

First group of Afrikaners granted refugee status are on their way to the U.S.

The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration enroute to U.S. as most other refugee admissions still suspended.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Mahawat Zakaria Jouma is happy when he gets a chance to play soccer, but mostly he is busy taking care of his siblings, trying to earn money makeing bricks, and going to school.

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  • Global Health

He's 14. He loves soccer. He's the sole caregiver for his little twin brothers

Mahamat Djouma is one of the millions displaced by the civil war in Sudan. He is part of an especially vulnerable group — unaccompanied minors. Here is his story.

November 15, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the war in Sudan without parents; his mother died in 2023 and his father subsequently disappeared. He came with 5-year-old twin brothers, whom he now cares for. Entesar, a 21-year-old student, also fled to escape the violence -- and was raped by three soldiers. She asked to be identified by her middle name since she has not yet told close family members about the attack.

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  • Global Health

Remarkably resilient refugees: A teen on his own, a woman who was raped

Sudan's civil war has displaced 10 million citizens. Here are profiles of two young people from the most vulnerable groups: an unaccompanied minor caring for twin brothers, a woman who was raped.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Photos by Claire Harbage
Abrar Saleh Ali, 17, arrived to Milé refugee camp in Eastern Chad two weeks ago after the civil war in Sudan destroyed her home and she was seperated from her family. It took months for her to walk across the country and reach the camp, along the way she was robbed of all her belongings, After arriving at the camp, she found out that her sister had been killed.

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  • Global Health

A world of women: Portraits from a refugee camp where the men are missing

In one refugee settlement in Chad, estimates are that 97% of the Sudanese residents are women and children. Here's how four women there are mourning the loss of a partner and struggling to get by.

October 16, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis and
  • Claire Harbage
One of the women who's brought her baby to the malnutrition clinic in Farchana. They're sitting under mosquito nets.

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  • Global Health

Sudanese refugees fled to Chad with hope. What they found is a bitter irony

It is the world's largest displacement crisis: 13 million people have fled their homes in war-torn Sudan. In neighboring Chad, both refugees and locals cope with this extraordinary upheaval.

September 26, 2024
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By:
  • Fatma Tanis,
  • Ari Shapiro,
  • and 1 more
South Sudanese who fled from Sudan sit outside a nutrition clinic at a transit center in Renk, South Sudan, May 16, 2023. Fighting in Sudan has displaced 10 million people, according to U.N. figures.

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  • World

Nearly 120 million people were displaced around the world in 2023, UNHCR report says

The U.N. office on refugees found that by the end of last year, 1 in 69 people had been forced from their homes -- either within their own country or across an international border.

June 13, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in London on Monday regarding a treaty between Britain and Rwanda to transfer asylum-seekers to the African country.

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  • World

U.K. Parliament approves a plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda

The British government has pushed the plan as a way to deter asylum-seekers from taking boats to Britain. But the U.N. human rights office has warned aviation authorities not to take part.

April 23, 2024
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
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