A dictionary for immigrants by young pioneers
Brothers Mohamed Kouwatli and Yossed Kouatli are working on a dictionary meant to help immigrants in Iceland and the local population better understan...
Becoming Icelandic – A family from Syria
A Syrian family was granted a residence permit on humanitarian grounds this week for one year. They hope for a future in Iceland, and are expecting th...
IKEA Offers Store Credit to Syrian Refugees
Fifty-five Syrian refugees will be migrating to Iceland from a refugee camp in Lebanon in January 2016 and the Icelandic IKEA store has plans to assis...
Thousands of Icelanders offer to take in Syrian refugees
Over 11,000 Icelanders have volunteered to offer Syrian refugees a roof over their head, after the government announced it would only be accepting 50 ...
Sweden to offer more aid to Syria
Sweden has pledged to give a further 1.5 billion kronor (US$174m) to help war-torn Syria over the next few years, confirmed its foreign and developmen...
Sweden: Asylum seekers protest location
A group of asylum seekers took to the streets in the northern Swedish town of Grytan on New Year’s Eve to protest about where they have wound up.
Stranded Syrian refugee and 4-yearold daughter apply for Finland entry
A Syrian mother released from prison in St. Petersburg and her four-year-old daughter who was being housed in a Russian orphanage have filed a visa ap...