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Small and subtle, the blue ribbons worn by many celebrities at the Oscars nonetheless had an important message: support refugees.

In a statement, the actor and humanitarian said she felt it was time “to work differently” by directly engaging with refugees and local organizations.

With refugee resettlement agencies overwhelmed after being gutted by the Trump administration, thousands of Americans heeded the call to help Afghans restart their lives in far-flung towns across the United States with little to no immigrant populations. Now the Biden administration is expected to turn the experiment into a permanent program that will allow everyday Americans to resettle people displaced...

A 2-year-old Afghan boy has been reunited with his parents in the U.S. after having been stuck in Afghanistan for nine months, his father told NBC News.

First lady Jill Biden has thanked U.S. troops deployed to Romania, where they are serving as a check against Russian aggression.

The stream of Ukrainian refugees into Poland has slowed in recent weeks, but many more could come if hostilities in Ukraine escalate.

The United States has sharply increased the number of Ukrainians admitted to the country at the Mexican border as even more refugees fleeing the Russian invasion follow the same circuitous route

As the number of people leaving Ukraine for points west slows, authorities in Poland and other neighboring nations are encouraging refugees from the war to find jobs, especially in health care and education.

President Biden visited a refugee camp in Warsaw, Poland and called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a butcher”

Four weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian military efforts have failed to capture a major Ukrainian city.

As Russian forces continue to bombard Ukrainian cities, civilians trying to escape the fighting are finding the journey more difficult.

Russia’s military did not expect the resistance it would face from Ukrainian fighters, says former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state Joel Rubin. “The Ukrainian people are incredibly brave and strong, and they are staring down a very large army and putting it in its place,” Rubin said.

As millions of women and children flee across Ukraine’s borders in the face of Russian aggression, concerns are growing over how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from being targeted by human traffickers or becoming victims of other forms of exploitation.

This article was updated on March 25, 2022, at 3:56 p.m. ET. As the Russia-Ukrainian conflict surpasses the one-month mark, over 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the violence. Most of them have traveled to fellow European countries, but on Wednesday, President Biden announced the U.S. would admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians. Biden also plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees…

A new NBCLX/YouGov poll on refugees shows stark contrasts in attitudes toward refugees from Ukraine compared to other war-torn areas of the world like Afghanistan and Syria. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky joined LX News to talk about the data on Americans’ attitudes toward welcoming refugees.

As more than 2 million refugees from Ukraine begin to scatter throughout Europe and beyond, some carry valuable witness evidence to build a case for potential war crimes

Within two days, workers in Rzeszow, Poland transformed one floor of a mall into a shelter with 800 beds for Ukrainian refugees. The facility has doctors onsite to help with prescriptions, three meals a day, showers, laundry and a place to organize and distribute donated clothes and other necessities. Jay Gray shows you what people are doing to help Ukrainians.

It was a brief moment of respite after many Ukrainian refugees walked for days in the cold to cross into Poland....
At a packed train station just over the border, volunteers gave food and candy to kids before sending them on their way. That’s where NBC News’ Jay Gray found a few kids who were eager to say hello, offer pieces...

President Joe Biden announced the U.S. would ban the import of oil from Russia on Tuesday as the refugee crisis continued with over 2 million refugees fleeing Ukraine.

An attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol was thrown into jeopardy by continued fighting Tuesday as conditions grew more desperate inside the city of 430,000, with corpses in the streets and hungry residents breaking into stores for food.