BUDAPEST, Sept 4 (UNHCR) - An angry confrontation between police and refugees on a blocked train just outside Budapest; a makeshift camp of stranded Syrians, Afghans and others at the capital's main ...

DUBLIN, Ireland, November 6 (UNHCR) - The Hungarian refugee crisis of 1956 was the first major test for the UN refugee agency as some 200,000 people fled the central European nation. It also provided ...

In 2015, approximately 1.5 million asylum seekers — mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq — arrived in Europe to escape conflicts, political instability and poverty. While most European ...

A Holocaust survivor, liberated 70 years ago from a concentration camp, fled Budapest in Hungary's 1956 uprising against Soviet control. He knows... In Today's Migrant Crisis, Echoes Of Hungary's ...

Crouched on a curb in a parking lot, smoking furiously, Majedeldin Abdulhai was gathering strength for the next leg of a journey that had already almost killed him. It was August 2015, and for weeks ...