Following the Paris terror attacks, Turkey has tightened its borders, forcing Syrians to find shelter in unofficial camps.
In an email Tuesday, Jeh Johnson, U.S. secretary of homeland security, explained how new arrivals would be vetted by the U.S. government.
The anti-refugee protest, which usually draws crowds of 10,000 per week, saw an estimated turnout of 25,000 in its first rally after the terror attacks in Paris.
Balkan states have begun filtering migrants as the exodus across Europe shows no signs of slowing down.
“The problem is not with Islam; it is with extremist people, it is with hateful people," Rabbi Gil Steinlauf said.
European Union member states agreed to move 160,000 refugees out of Greece and Italy over two years. They have so far relocated 158.
An editorial cartoon by the Daily Mail's Stan McMurtry, who goes by the pen name Mac, has drawn backlash online for apparently equating refugees with rats.
It can take years for a Syrian refugee to gain entry to the United States, but not so for European countries.
Domestic pressure has continued to build over Germany's open-arms refugee policy as the country expects 1 million refugees to cross its borders by the end of the year.
Ahead of the G20 meeting in Turkey, Germany's leader defended the policy as criticism mounted from members of her own party.
Sweden places border controls to deal with a massive influx as it expects to see about 190,000 asylum-seekers arriving into the country this year.
The barrier on its border with Croatia was being constructed hours before European Union leaders were to hold yet another refugee-crisis summit in Malta Wednesday.
Even as leaders from the European Union and Africa converged on Malta for a two-day summit, at least 14 refugees, including seven children, drowned off the coast of Turkey.
As temperatures drop, Sweden has said it is running out of room to shelter refugees and is telling people to consider going back to Denmark.
Europe is looking to Ankara for help with its ongoing refugee crisis, and it is estimated that about 5,000 people will enter Greece from Turkey on a daily basis this winter.
The country is expected to receive about 190,000 people total through the end of the year.
Leaders of Berlin's governing coalition agreed on a new strategy to deal with the refugee influx -- something that the country, along with the rest of Europe, is struggling to handle.
Migrants and refugees have been arriving in record numbers, testing the country's capacity to deal with them, officials say.
A U.N. report released Monday said over 218,000 asylum-seekers crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in October.
An estimated 87 percent of Syrians in Europe have smartphones, and they're using various apps to plot their journey and communicate with their families back home.
Slovenia, which became a bottleneck after Hungary closed its borders with Serbia and Croatia, has recorded an influx of nearly 85,000 refugees.
Over 700,000 people have made their way into Europe since the beginning of this year, triggering the region's worst refugee crisis in decades.
