I hardly think a six month old link is old. It's just that the caravan has moved on and we are all meant to be getting excited about something else which the press consider newsworthy?
Interestingly (?) while perceived wisdom is that we are reaping that which we have sown due to our interfering in the Middle East, according to latest HO figures (YE June 2015) the largest number of applications for asylum came from nationals of Eritrea (3,568), followed by Pakistan (2,302) neither of which country I remember bombing recently.
The ONS spin on the figures is here
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_414818.pdf