The war in Syria has plunged 80 percent of its people into poverty, reduced life expectancy by 20 years and led to massive economic losses estimated at over $200bn since the conflict began in 2011, according to a UN-backed report. 　　The Syrian Center for Policy Research painted a devastating picture... More

　　A Bangladeshi national rescued in the Mediterranean Sea from a capsized migrant boat off the Libyan coast on Sunday has claimed that there had been more than 900 people on board, Italian media reports. 　　According to Italy's La Repubblica newspaper, the Bangladeshi woman -- who is now hospitalized in in... More

　　According to official website statement, The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ CAIR categorizes U.S. Islamophobia network groups. 　　The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) publishes the groups list that spreading anti-islam prejudice in America. According to its official website statement, the Islamophobic Organizations are these: 　　Abstraction Fund 　　The Abstraction Fund is part... More

　　Some of the French soldiers alleged to have sexually abused children in Central African Republic while there on peacekeeping duties have been identified, a French judicial source said on Thursday. 　　The matter came to light this week when Britain's Guardian newspaper said it had acquired a U.N. report that raised... More

　　The UN chief has said he was "shocked" after Hungarian riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at crowds of refugees desperate to cross the border from Serbia. 　　When asked about the border clashes on Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon said the treatment of the refugees by the Hungarian police was... More

　　At a campaign rally in New Hampshire Wednesday night, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump declined to correct a supporter who declared that “Muslims” are “a problem in this country” and urged the candidate to “get rid of ‘em.” 　　Voicing the beliefs of nearly half of U.S. Republicans, the speaker also... More

　　A record number of refugees have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, breaching the half-a-million mark for the past nine months, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). 　　As of Tuesday, the group said 522,124 people had travelled by sea to reach the continent. 　　About 388,000 have entered... More

　　The year 2015 was the deadliest on record for refugees trying to reach Europe by sea, with 3,771 deaths recorded in the Mediterranean alone, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. 　　The Mediterranean was followed by Southeast Asia, mostly in the Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Malaysia and Thailand,... More

　　On January 7, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides onto Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. 　　"Herbicides are sprayed in high concentrations. Thus, they remain embedded in the soil, and then find their way... More

　　More than 10,000 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said on Sunday, fearing many have been whisked into sex trafficking rings or the slave trade. 　　Europol's press office confirmed to Al Jazeera the figures published in British newspaper The Observer. 　　The number... More

　　Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency abuses Palestinians under interrogation in a manner so systematic it points to official endorsement, two Israeli NGOs said in a report published Wednesday. 　　The 70-page joint study by rights groups B'Tselem and Hamoked is based on accounts by 116 suspects interrogated at Shikma prison... More

　　According to the latest Palestinian figures, since Oct. 1 of last year, at least 186 Palestinians have been killed and another 15,645 injured by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. 　　Over the same period, according to Israeli figures, 33 Israelis have... More

　　Of some 5.3 million people displaced by fighting in northwestern Pakistan in recent years, a million or so remain to be resettled under a program the authorities see as key to keeping a lid on extremist violence. 　　People are generally anxious to get back, having lived in refugee camps or... More