EU refugee crisis

Afghani refugee, Ahmad Wali Temory, has worked in Germany's parliament with the goal of helping preserve the policies that brought him to Germany.

Merkel’s party wants to deport migrants to Afghanistan, but this refugee says it’s unsafe

September 25, 2017Global Politics

A German far-right party won parliamentary seats after campaigning against policies that welcomed refugees. One of those refugees, Ahmad Wali Temory, hopes to preserve the policies that brought Afghans like him to the country.

African migrants arriving in Italy from Mediterranean

African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya

June 27, 2017Conflict

A settlement for Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.

Refugee Day: Photos of a historic migration of people seeking safer and better lives

June 20, 2017Economics

The Libyan coast guard boards a boat in the Mediterranean while humanitarian groups bring migrants onto their ships.

Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe

May 24, 2017Conflict

Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day

May 23, 2017Economics

Migrants look out toward the Maltese island of Gozo, as the boat the Phoenix makes its way toward Italy after rescue operations off the coast of Libya, on May 5.

Fewer migrants are crossing the Mediterranean than last year. But almost as many are dying.

May 16, 2017Conflict

The migrant death rate on the Mediterranean is so far triple that of last year.

Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos

Refugees suffer PTSD and attempt suicide in Greece

April 6, 2017Conflict

Mental health is the latest casualty of the refugee crisis.

Hungarian border hunter recruits take oath during a swearing-in ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on March 7.

Hungary’s Trump-supporting leader will deploy ‘border hunters’ and refugee detention containers

March 13, 2017Global Politics

EU member Hungary will detain asylum-seekers in shipping containers and will arm and deploy border vigilantes to prevent what the government calls an “invasion” of migrants.

Migrants, hoping to cross into Hungary, walk with babies on their backs along a railway track outside the village of Horgos in Serbia, toward the border it shares with Hungary, on Aug. 31, 2015.

Hungary will detain asylum-seekers in shipping containers

March 7, 2017Conflict

Hungarian prisoners are also building a second “smart fence” complete with night cameras and heat and movement sensors to keep migrants out.

A congregation at the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church and Community in Berlin.

This evangelical church in Berlin is helping Iranians looking for asylum

February 17, 2017Conflict

Some of the Iranian Christians in Berlin have been refused asylum elsewhere and need a place to hang out for six months until they can apply for asylum in Germany.