BAGHDAD, July 16 (UNHCR) - The first group of Iranian refugees in Iraq went home Saturday with UNHCR assistance under a voluntary repatriation programme agreed upon over a year ago by the two ...

Barham Salih has known torture and the wrenching loss of exile. Four decades after his own ordeal, he has taken the helm of ...

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 ...

Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The ...

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 ...

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

An Iraqi refugee who is facing charges that he tried to help the Islamic State group wanted to set off bombs at two Houston malls and was learning how to make electronic transmitters that could be ...

(Corrects figure in paragraph 3 of Jan. 4 story from 45,913,000 to 45,913) By Aseel Kami BAGHDAD, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Some 46,000 refugees returned home to Iraq from Syria between September and December ...

Siblings Lauren and Justin Banta (right) founded Refugee Writers, a group that lets Dallas-area refugees share their experiences. One Iraqi family is doing so: (from left) Ahmed, Mohammed, Jamal, ...

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.