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They are among the 1,600 Iraqi refugees that the United States has resettled. That number is far short of the 7,000 the Bush administration promised in February to settle by the end of September ...
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.
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 ...
A former Iraqi refugee pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group, according to the Justice Department. Abdulrahman Mohammed Hafedh Alqaysi, 28, pleaded ...
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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.
Since then U.S. communities with large Iraqi populations have been flooded with refugees. In El Cajon, where about one-quarter of the population of 96,000 has Iraqi ancestry, an estimated 7,000 ...
SAN DIEGO, United States, December 12 (UNHCR) - Like all of the Iraqi refugees who arrive each month at this coastal city in southern California, Mayek and Esmahan can cite the moment when it was ...
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.