Over 330,000 people have been displaced by an intensification of hostilities in the Middle East and clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, UNHCR spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh said on March 6.
UK interior minister Shabana Mahmood announced tougher regulations on March 5, noting that they will revoke aid for asylum seekers and refugees with a criminal record.
Conservative German leader Friedrich Merz has expressed apprehension that prolonged conflict in Iran could destabilize the region and send new migration waves toward Europe. "We do not want to see a Syrian scenario," he has said.
Aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF) has filed a complaint for defamation against a British far-right group after one of its teams was verbally attacked in northern France last year while returning fr1
A 20-year-old Syrian national was convicted of attempted murder for stabbing a Spanish tourist in February 2025. The attack inflamed an already heated migration debate ahead of federal elections.