A Kurdish Iranian refugee who wrote an award-winning book via WhatsApp from inside an offshore Australian detention center where he'd been marooned for six years, finally left the island this week, ...

Authorities have started to dismantle the detention center on Manus Island, as an estimated 600 refugees and asylum seekers refuse to leave the site amid an ongoing week long standoff. Almost 60 ...

I arrived in Chicago this spring, one of a handful of refugees sent to the United States under an agreement with Australia. I’m enjoying my freedom here and looking forward to the chance to get an ...

Papua New Guinean police and immigration officers have entered the decommissioned Manus Island detention centre, where around 400 asylum seekers have been resisting attempts to remove them. The ...

Images from the streets of DC following Trump's extraordinary move to flood the Democratic-led city with soldiers and federal agents.

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When Sudanese refugee Aziz Adam landed on Christmas Island, in Australian territory, he thought his days of horror and torture were over. Fleeing without his family, under threat of death for being a ...

The detention center used by Australia to house asylum seekers on Manus Island will close, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill announced Wednesday, after the nation’s Supreme Court ruled ...

For years, Australia has employed a controversial policy for migrants coming by sea without proper documents for entry: It sends them to offshore holding facilities. The law was passed in 2013, during ...

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Last week, an Australian-run offshore detention center housing hundreds of asylum seekers was closed down on Manus Island, a small key of Papua New Guinea. New facilities set up to receive them, ...