Asylum seekers who have been waiting more than a year for an outcome to their applications have told BBC News they are "depressed" and "terrified" by the Home Office's decision to pause claims. Hussam Kassas fled Syria in 2016 after he and his family were "personally targeted" by Bashar al-Assad's regime due to his work documenting human rights abuses and participating in protests.

The Home Office is considering a range of options to deal with thousands of Syrian nationals - many of whom arrived here by small boat across the Channel.

Britain is at risk from jihadist terrorists returning to the UK in the wake of the demise of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad, UK security experts have warned. According to reports, around a dozen radicalised ISIS warmongers from the UK were being held in Kurdish-run prisons in the northern Syria,