Fighting in northwest Syria, including Idlib, has uprooted nearly a million Syrians—triggering the largest displacement in the country’s nine-year-old war.

One year after the massive explosion in Beirut, IRC staff member Elias El Beam describes how Lebanon has struggled to recover.

President Donald Trump has claimed that refugees coming into the United States are not screened. The truth is that refugees are already vetted more intensively than any other group seeking to enter the country. Four refugees describe the exhaustive interviews and security checks they and their families went through to resettle in the U.S.

It is no exaggeration that the future of the United States as a home for refugees is now on the line. New IRC data shows there are even fewer refugee arrivals in the U.S. than expected.