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The German chancellor spent an afternoon with refugees. She took selfies. Lots of selfies.


Of course, his own immigration proposal would make that basically impossible.


We can prevent more children from drowning in the Mediterranean. But we can’t do it by just writing a check.


Why is this happening now? Why won’t Europe take more? How did things get so bad in Syria?

The US likes to think of itself as a safe haven for people fleeing violent conflict, but Syrians have largely found a closed door.


These maps and charts explain how the situation in Syria got so bad — and why Syrians are fleeing to Europe.


This is a political crisis as well as a humanitarian one


What you need to know to understand Syria’s civil war — and the refugee crisis it created.


America’s callous inaction is leaving refugees to drown in the Mediterranean.


Western anti-migrant sentiment is embedded in every inch of that photo, whether you see it or not.


Outlets that have bashed refugees for years are now pretending to care about one child whose death produced a viral image.


Letting Syrian refugees stay in Germany to apply for asylum will help thousands of vulnerable people. It’s also a step toward solving the European Union’s biggest crisis.


And it’s only going to get worse this summer.


How Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp became “the deepest circle of hell.”


Neighboring countries are struggling to house them in nightmarish refugee camps


130,000 refugees flooded into Turkey in just three days.

