Would-be Syrian refugees flown back from Belarus despite visas - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Sultan al-Kanj

Sultan al-Kanj

Dec 14, 2021

Syrian migrant Masour Nassar, 42, from Aleppo, applied for asylum in Poland. — Syrian migrant Masour Nassar, 42, from Aleppo, who has applied for asylum in Poland is taken by Polish border guards out of the Rafala Czerwiakowskiego Hospital Emergency ward of the district hospital on Nov. 19, 2021, in Bielsk Podlask, Poland. Poland and Belarus are currently in a standoff over thousands of migrants, many of them from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, who have amassed on the Belarus side of the border with the hope of entering Poland and the European Union. EU authorities accuse the Belarusian government of enticing migrants with tourist visas and using them as a political weapon. — Maciej Moskwa/Getty Images)

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Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Police check approaching vehicles at a checkpoint along a road leading toward the border with Belarus on Nov. 10, 2021, near Kuznica, Poland.

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Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Migrants at the Belarus-Poland border make fires to keep warm on Nov. 11, 2021.

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Adam Lucente

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change