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Migrants or refugees: what’s the right word?
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
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Two British journalists are charged with “working on behalf of a terrorist organisation” in Turkey.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he would consider a coalition against Islamic State, but this would be unlikely to include those backing rebel groups in his country.
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
Thousands of migrants broke through a police line in Macedonia as the government struggles to control the border. Many are still stranded in “dangerous” conditions.
Macedonia allows a limited number of migrants to enter from Greece, hours after police drove back crowds by firing tear gas.
Struggling to cope with thousands of refugees and migrants passing through the country, Macedonia’s government declares a state of emergency on its southern and northern borders.
The death toll from Syrian government air strikes on a market in an under-siege area of Damascus passes 100, making it one of the bloodiest attacks of the four-year war.
The Italian navy confirm the deaths of at least 40 migrants thought to have “suffocated” in a boat in the Mediterranean.
There were chaotic scenes outside a stadium on the Greek island of Kos yesterday, as hundreds of migrants fought to be registered.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad admits his forces are suffering from a “shortfall in human capacity” as Turkey launches airstrikes against the Islamic State group.
An Isis fighter who has been shown inside Syria alongside dead bodies and the flag of the self-styled Islamic State has been pictured at Turkish resorts in the last week.
The number of refugees fleeing Syria has topped 4 million, according to the UN refugee agency, in what has been described as the world’s biggest refugee crisis.
Two of the three teenage girls from Bethnal Green who went to live in the ‘Islamic State’ have become jihadi brides, according to their families.
Kurdish fighters reportedly advance to within 30 miles of the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Raqqa, while pro-Assad forces battle Sunni militants on the Lebanese border.
UK politicians want media organisations like the BBC to abandon the term Islamic State, which they say dignifies terrorist extremists, and instead to use the word Daesh. So what is the difference?