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After losing significant territory, al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, has increased its use of suicide attacks in a bid to regain lost momentum, says Syrian researcher Haid Haid.
Join us on Tuesday for a virtual event with Refugees Deeply’s senior editor Daniel Howden, journalist Apostolis Fotiadis, Jeff Crisp from the Refugee Studies Centre, MSF’s Marietta Provopoulou and independent humanitarian adviser Fotini Rantsiou.
Arctic nations should do more to ensure their northern communities are ready and able to respond to emergencies at sea, writes Andreas Osthagen for the High North News.
Over 1 million people have fled ethnic cleansing and famine in South Sudan, most of them women and children. In this photo and video essay, Angela Wells and Rachel Reed meet the female leaders and refugee women in Uganda who have become warriors for peace.
Here’s a look at some of California’s newly introduced legislation that will have an impact on water, environmental protection, groundwater, water supply and wildlife.
Increased monitoring of Arctic weather conditions could help predict big storms that strike more southerly latitudes, according to new research by the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan.
After a long history of problems, two river outlet valves deep inside Oroville Dam were not operating at a critical time this winter, eliminating one option to help manage severe storm runoff.
In the first of our in-depth reports on the education crisis for Syrian refugees, Abby Sewell reports from Lebanon on the challenges faced by Syrian siblings in a country with the highest per capita number of refugees in the world.
In the first of our in-depth reports on the education crisis for Syrian refugees, Abby Sewell reports from Lebanon on the challenges faced by Syrian siblings in a country with the highest per capita number of refugees in the world.
Amid the revised executive order suspending refugee resettlement in the U.S., Austin Schiano explores what spaces are left for Syrian refugees in countries around the world.
Amid the revised executive order suspending refugee resettlement in the U.S., Austin Schiano explores what spaces are left for Syrian refugees in countries around the world.
Following Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s call for a safe zone in Syria along the Lebanese border, Syrian journalist Abdulrahman al-Masri explores what the Shiite militia stands to gain from such an area and the potential impact on regional powers.
Building the ranks of bilingual teachers is key to improving Nunavut’s school system, says Eva Aariak, a longtime champion of Inuit culture and language.
Lebanese militia Hezbollah has vowed not to leave Syria until they have guarantees that the country will remain a key player in the Iran-led “resistance axis,” writes Levant researcher Mona Alami.
Refugees Deeply investigates failures in the most expensive humanitarian response in history, which played out during the refugee crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Hundreds of drinking-water wells across California’s San Joaquin Valley have been found to contain 1,2,3-trichloropropane, a likely human carcinogen. This month, the state has taken a big step forward in regulating the chemical.
Stakeholders are exploring different options to reduce the much-debated environmental impacts of desalination to make it a more attractive option for drought-hit regions.
In the third of a series of interviews with private-sector leaders who pledged to help address the refugee crisis, we speak to Erin Connor of Cisco about the multinational I.T. company’s work on the refugee crisis.
Peter Mather has gone to great lengths to photograph wildlife in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Here he shares some of his favorite winter shots and some tricks for staying warm.
The number of Africans crossing the Americas to seek refuge in the U.S. grew tenfold last year. Now survivors of that long, expensive and dangerous journey face shrinking prospects of reaching the U.S. and more hardships in Mexico amid Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Boats that were once crammed with migrants making a death-defying voyage across the Mediterranean are now being used used for daily cruises through the world-famous waterways of the Dutch capital.
An executive order issued yesterday by Donald Trump puts in motion a process to do away with an Obama administration-era ruling on which waters are protected under the Clean Water Act.
Every day in Tel Aviv, about 5,000 children of asylum seekers attend daycare centers run by women with little or no training. Recent reports of infant deaths at some of these makeshift nurseries have caused a public uproar, but little action from the government.
During an international day of action, Californians will be focusing on standardizing water-rate data in a project that could have benefits for everyone, from customers to utilities to entrepreneurs.
At least 30,000 Syrians have lost limbs in the war, according to conservative estimates. Among them is Husam al-Zeno who escaped Eastern Ghouta using prosthetic legs made for a young girl and now manages an aid distribution center for fellow refugees in Turkey.
At least 30,000 Syrians have lost limbs in the war, according to conservative estimates. Among them is Husam al-Zeno who escaped Eastern Ghouta using prosthetic legs made for a young girl and now manages an aid distribution center for fellow refugees in Turkey.
Researchers have charted an increase in Arctic shipping numbers, but Canada’s Northwest Passage is unlikely to become a regular route any time soon, due to the enduring presence of hard, thick, multi-year sea ice in the more northerly channels.
After enduring four years of government-imposed siege and living under the increasingly authoritarian rule of the armed opposition, residents of the Damascus suburb have no choice but to join Jaish al-Islam if they want to find work.
Population growth in the Bay Area is spurring the need for new housing developments, but in water-stressed California this means that regional planners have to be more strategic.
Canada’s Winnipeg Art Gallery is already home to the world’s biggest collection of Inuit art. This spring, work gets started on providing this collection with a fitting home at the new Inuit Art Centre.
The German government hopes the influx of migrants will solve the country’s labor shortage. It has created a program to prepare refugees for the country’s apprenticeship system. But getting refugees trained and hired is proving difficult.
Nour al-Din al-Zenki was considered one of the strongest moderate factions fighting with the Free Syrian Army in the early years of the war, but after foreign aid stopped flowing to the rebel group in 2015, it allied with more radical forces.
A warming world’s wrenching impacts on the North are by now well understood. However, the cost of adapting to these dramatic shifts remains unclear in the case of northern Canada.
Residents are concerned that plans to cut down 14,000 oak trees to make way for grapevines will impact groundwater, fish habitat and climate change mitigation.
Millions of fish listed under the Endangered Species Act were being raised at a hatchery by the dam and have had to be moved because of conditions in the Feather River. But those same conditions have been a boon for wild fish.
Morocco’s policy toward migrants is more generous than most, issuing work permits and refusing to evict undocumented refugees. But women in the country’s refugee camps are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, Fabíola Ortiz reports for Women & Girls Hub.
Nicolette Boehland, lead researcher on Amnesty’s recent report on Saydnaya prison, discusses the human rights NGO’s yearlong investigation of the Syrian government’s alleged campaign of mass hangings and extermination.
There is no official record of the number of refugees who go missing crossing the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe. Ingeborg Eliassen of the Investigate Europe network explores why a European database of migrant deaths does not exist.
Young Syrian refugee women have been learning to juggle, walk on stilts and hula-hoop as part of a new scheme in Turkey designed to break down language and social barriers and help the girls make friends.
Let’s not let a good crisis go to waste: Here are six important conversations that need to happen in the aftermath of problems at Oroville Dam in Northern California.
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