refugees

On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia. One week later, the boat vanished. Those aboard the doomed vessel were among at least 348 Rohingya who died or went missing while attempting to cross the Bay of Bengal or Andaman Sea last year.

Small and subtle, the blue ribbons worn by many celebrities at the Oscars nonetheless had an important message: support refugees.

In a statement, the actor and humanitarian said she felt it was time “to work differently” by directly engaging with refugees and local organizations.

With refugee resettlement agencies overwhelmed after being gutted by the Trump administration, thousands of Americans heeded the call to help Afghans restart their lives in far-flung towns across the United States with little to no immigrant populations. Now the Biden administration is expected to turn the experiment into a permanent program that will allow everyday Americans to resettle people displaced...

For newly-arrived migrants who fled their countries with nothing in hand, a little bit of help and support from the community goes a long way.

A 2-year-old Afghan boy has been reunited with his parents in the U.S. after having been stuck in Afghanistan for nine months, his father told NBC News.

First lady Jill Biden has thanked U.S. troops deployed to Romania, where they are serving as a check against Russian aggression.

The stream of Ukrainian refugees into Poland has slowed in recent weeks, but many more could come if hostilities in Ukraine escalate.

The United States has sharply increased the number of Ukrainians admitted to the country at the Mexican border as even more refugees fleeing the Russian invasion follow the same circuitous route

As the number of people leaving Ukraine for points west slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.

President Biden visited a refugee camp in Warsaw, Poland and called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a butcher”

Four weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian military efforts have failed to capture a major Ukrainian city.