Barham Salih has spent much of his life crossing borders, first as a young Kurdish exile fleeing repression in Iraq, and now as the UN top official for refugees, confronting a world in which more than ...

DAMASCUS - UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited Iraq and Syria to see first-hand the plight of hundreds of thousands of families uprooted by the ongoing conflict in Iraq. The UN ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 13 December 2007 Three research ...

The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project strives to help Iraqis who are in the legal limbo of waiting for resettlement papers. This series of videos tells the stories of refugees and also shows how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Iraq's President Barham Salih speaks to members of the media as he casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad, as ...

he couple moved to Iraqi-Kurdistan in September 2025 with their two children, ages 7 and 12, to work full time with Syrian refugees.

This week, we're checking back in with some people we met during 2017. Ahmed Badr is a refugee whose family moved from Iraq to Syria to the U.S. He's now 19 years old. Back in the spring, he read a ...

Many refugees have decided to try to get to Europe for the sake of their children's future, a refugee from Iraq told BelTA. Refugees have been staying on the Belarus-Poland border for 30 days already.

A new international refugee crisis may emerge from the Iran war. The humanitarian consequences of the Iran war will likely be felt throughout the Middle East—and beyond.