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. 30 November 2007 Two sick Palestinian ...

At the outside of the Iraq invasion, a tidal wave of refugees was predicted. It didn't happen right away. But last February, the bombing of a Shiite mosque set off the orgy of deadly sectarian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Department of Bioethics’ Medicine, Society and Culture track will host Nadia El-Shaarawi, assistant professor of global studies at Colby College, for a talk titled “Solving Displacement: Iraqi ...

Before the Iraq war began, the Pentagon was planning for a mass exodus of refugees. When the initial invasion went so fast, that was one of the many predictions that did not come true. Now, after ...

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 Iraqis go to the polls to vote in the parliamentary election, in Iraq, ...

On 20 March 2003, then-president George W Bush instructed the US and coalition forces to invade Iraq in an attempt to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. The president claimed the dictator was actively ...

GENEVA(AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended former Iraqi President Barham Salih to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, the first nomination from the Middle East ...

UNITED NATIONS(AP) — The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, its first from the Middle East since the ...