BASRA, Iraq, July 30 (UNHCR) - More than 240 Iraqi refugees returned home today to scenes of great jubilation after a historic journey marking the start of voluntary returns to Iraq in the post-Saddam ...

GENEVA, October 8 (UNHCR) - A recent UNHCR survey of Iraqi refugees living in Syria has found that most are still reluctant to return home on a permanent basis. The survey was carried out in July and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

United Nations: Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who was himself once a refugee, has been elected the UN High Commissioner for Refugees at a time when the agency faces the twin crises of ...

Religious groups pushed back against a wave of opposition toward Syrian refugees and are working to preserve the United States as a haven for them. “We’re really in emergency mode,” said Jen Smyers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Barham Salih, President of Iraq addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in ...