His name for the proposed island home: Hope. He would like to buy an isle from Greece or Italy. In fact, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, one of the region’s wealthiest men, has offered to buy an island for refugees. State Department says.Įgypt rounds out this look at how the Mideast hosts most of the Syrian refugees. Tens of thousands of Iraqis who sought refuge in Syria between 20 have returned home, joining about a million Iraqis who were already internally displaced,” Refugees International said.Ībout 38% of the Syrian refugees live in camps in Iraq, the U.S. “As Syria’s civil war has dragged on, the direction of forced migration for many Iraqi refugees has reversed. The notion of Syrian refugees in Iraq may strike some as ironic, if not absurd, because Iraq has deteriorated under sectarian strife and ISIS assaults, producing a sizable population of Iraqi refugees.ĭestination unknown: The struggle of refugees at Keleti station Not surprisingly, most of the Syrian refugees have settled in northern areas such as Irbil, Duhuk and Nineveh, which are among the closest to the Syrian border and have large Kurdish populations, the United Nations says. Like Syria, Iraq has been torn by attacks launched by ISIS, the extremist Islamist group that has captured portions of both countries for what it calls its Islamic caliphate. The Syrian arrivals, however, strain resources and “could have a negative impact on Jordanian public opinion of refugees and make preserving the country’s asylum space in the country challenging,” the United Nations says.Ībout 20% of the Syrian arrivals live in camps. Nearly half of its 7 million population is of Palestinian origin. Jordan has a history of taking in refugees. Putin, Erdogan blame West for Syrian Crisis
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