A recent report by the Norwegian Refugee Council said that 72% of Afghan refugees who returned home were forced to flee again due to violence. The organization is calling on Europe to block repatriations of Afghan citizens.
Germany has said it is resettling the last few migrants from Greece and Italy under the EU's relocation scheme. Germany took in just over one-third of the expected number of refugees under the agreement.
Both President Steinmeier and King Abdullah II stopped short of declaring for one side in the controversy over Jerusalem's status. Steinmeier thanked Jordan for accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria.
The Food and Agriculture Organization and International Organisation for Migration have signed a new memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation.
Fewer people filed for asylum in the European Union in 2017, data published by the European Council on Refugees and Exiles shows. But while some individual nations saw big drops in the number of asylum seekers, others saw a signific1