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 ...

Iranian Kurdish families living in a camp in Iraq hold on to one hope: that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran weakens Iran’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barham Salih has spent much of his life crossing borders, first as a young Kurdish exile fleeing repression in Iraq, and now ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...