In the past, the United States has admitted far larger numbers of refugees. In 1979, it provided sanctuary to 111,000 Vietnamese refugees, and in 1980, it added another 207,000.

DELAWARE (0) Democratic Gov. Jack Markell is standing by his support for President Obama's decision to provide asylum for Syrian refugees in the United States, despite Republican calls not to ...

The United States has welcomed asylum-seekers and refugees throughout most of its history, of course, and so there already exists a process through which applicants must go. (In 2013, the United ...

But the United States has so far admitted only a tiny fraction of the estimated four million refugees who have fled Syria. Where the 1,854 Syrian Refugees Admitted to the U.S. Since 2012 Were Placed ...

For Syrian refugees, those "non-adversarial interviews" take place mostly in Amman, Jordan and Istanbul, Turkey, ... When it comes to placing refugees in the United States, ...

Syrian refugees in the United States. In the midst of the worldwide Syrian refugee crisis, the United States admitted 15,583 Syrian refugees between January 2014 and October 2016. 3 While this is ...

(CNN) — The governors of at least 15 states have announced they will not accept Syrian refugees. They include Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Texas and Massachusetts among others. The announcements ...

The United States, all the while, has pledged significant financial aid to Syria, contributing $1.4 billion in emergency relief and humanitarian assistance to the war zone.

Nongovernmental organizations filled some of the gap in health services, often with funding from the United States or Europe, ...

She’s only been in the United States for three and a half months, but it was a goal she waited a long time for. “My uncle applied for us to come to the United States since like 2008," said ...

But in practice, national data shows that Congolese refugees wait over 10 years longer to be reunited with their families than Syrian refugees do. Are there any lessons the United States can learn ...

Eight European Union member states called for a re-evaluation of the situation in Syria to enable the voluntary return of Syrian refugees. Officials from Austria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus ...