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Inside the Iraqi Refugee Crisis. Published Oct 16, 2007 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 4:51 PM EST. By Newsweek Staff . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. FOLLOW. news article.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which appealed for $60 million in emergency aid last week, believes 1.7 million Iraqis are displaced inside Iraq, whose prewar population was 21 million.
I am among the estimated 2 million Iraqi refugees still living far from home more than seven years after the U.S.-led coalition took over Baghdad. This is one story among hundreds of thousands ...
The Trump administration had reserved 4,000 slots for Iraqi refugees who had helped American troops, contractors or news media or who are members of a persecuted minority group in the fiscal year ...
Thousands of Iraqi refugees resettled in the U.S. are living in poverty and need additional federal aid to survive the nation’s economic crisis, according to a new report by an international aid ...
Syria and Jordan are the neighboring states most affected by the Iraqi refugee crisis, with 1.2 to 1.4 million and 500,000 to 750,000 refugees respectively.
The Iraqi refugees weren’t trying to circumvent barriers in southern Europe to reach Germany like so many others in the past two years — they were going home to Diyala in eastern Iraq.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 17 (UNHCR) - Iraqi refugees arrive in Pakistan with complex tales of jails, torture and dangerous escapes - the 170 Iraqi refugees currently recognised by the UN High ...
There are nearly 8,000 Iraqi refugees and 25 Syrian families in Illinois, with more on the way, says Laura Youngberg, executive director of the Iraqi Mutual Aid Society, ...
Jordan and Syria complained Thursday they have been abandoned by the West to deal with the massive burden of more than 2 million Iraqi refugees who have fled the violence in their homeland.
The exact number of Lebanese refugees in Iraq remains unclear, with estimates ranging from 2,500 to over 50,000. The Red Crescent reports around 10,000 refugees, while border statistics suggest ...
Dawood, a Christian, said he came to the U.S. in 1982 as a refugee from Iraq, fleeing religious persecution and the Iran-Iraq war. His dad gave him all the money he had — $3,000, he said.