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Since George W Bush declared a “global war on terror” following al-Qaida’s September 11 attacks, the wars that US forces have launched and engaged in have displaced an estimated 37 million people, according to a new report I helped produce with teams from American University and Brown University’s Costs ...

Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting such fears last weekend as they blockaded the main highway into Dover Port in order “to protect Britain’s borders”. Meanwhile, the home secretary, Priti ...

Thousands of refugees and migrants are homeless in Greece after fires destroyed the biggest camp in Europe. The Moria Camp was built to house 3,000 people but the population was four times that, with its residents packed in and living in squalor. Greece's migration minister says refugees and migrants ...

Conflicts with US military involvement have displaced at least 37 million people since the beginning of the “war on terror” nearly two decades ago, a report has estimated. The invasion of Iraq and the decades of instability that have followed in the country have uprooted at least 9.2 million ...

Brown University's "Costs of War" project estimated in a new report Tuesday that 37 million people have been displaced in the nearly 20 years since former President George W. Bush declared a "global war on terror."The authors said the figure is "a very conservative estimate," and the number could ...

World23:07 GMT 08.09.2020Get short URLA new report by the Costs of War Project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced by the US War on Terror; however, the group warns that the estimate is conservative and the real total could be far higher.According to a ...

The U.S. war against global terrorism has displaced as many as 59 million people since 2001, according to a new report released Tuesday by Brown University. The study, published by the Rhode Island-based university’s “Costs of War Project,” says between 37 million and 59 million people in eight countries ...

The United States’ wars launched in the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001 have resulted in the displacement of at least 37 million people worldwide, according to a new Brown University report. That was a “conservative” estimate, the researchers said: their report indicated the actual number of ...

WASHINGTON Wars fought by the US have displaced at least 37 million people since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on America, according to report Tuesday from Brown University."That is more than those displaced by any war or disaster since the start of the 20th century, except for World ...

At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project. That figure exceeds those displaced by conflict since 1900, the authors say, with ...