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A group of 38 Afghans arrived in Kabul from Germany on Dec. 15, the first to be deported under an agreement reached between the two countries this year, following the rejection of their applications for asylum. 

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has presented projects for the three billion euro fund the EU has agreed to provide for Syrian refugees, says AFAD's head, Fuat Oktay.

Unlike many Turkish provinces that have received Syrian refugees in large numbers, one hardly sees child beggars on the streets of Kilis in Turkey's south, as the governorate exerted effort to school minors.

Turkish authorities detained 97 Syrian refugees, including 22 children, in the trailer of a truck near the border with Bulgaria on Sunday.

The migrants were caught when they attempted to illegally cross the Kapikule-Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint.

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? has revealed the details of the Turkish government's plan offering work permits to Syrian refugees, pledging that the arrangement would not lead to limiting the employment of Turkish citizens.

Six foreign soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the US-run Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on Dec. 21, NATO said.
     
Another three NATO troops were wounded in the attack, according to U.S. Army Brig. Gen William Shoffner, head of public affairs at NATO's Resolute Support base in the Afghan capital Kabul.
     

Two migrant children were found dead on Dec. 15 after a migrant dinghy sank off Antalya's Ka? coast.

Turkish coast guards were deployed to the Sar?ada coast early Dec. 15 upon a notice that a migrant dinghy had drifted, according to the Antalya Governor's Office.

The last of 11 Taliban insurgents who infiltrated Kandahar airport was killed late on Dec. 9, more than 24 hours after the attack was launched, the country's Defense Ministry said, with the death toll among civilians and security forces rising to 50. 

Bulgarian authorities detained nine Syrian refugees hidden in a Romanian truck in the Pass of the Republic (also known as Hainboaz) in central Bulgaria on Saturday.

Four young men, four women and a one-year-old child were detained after drivers travelling through the pass had informed police that there were immigrants in the truck.

Turkey has received an award from the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S. for its humanitarian efforts towards Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presented the 2015 Humanitarian Award to the Turkish ambassador to the U.S., Serdar K?l?ç, during an annual ceremony of the organization on Oct. 17.