Iraq War Refugees

Refugee Chess

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living


Freddy Deknatel

In Baghdad, their eldest daughter had two cars. Six years later, the Iraqi couple moves their mattresses out of the bedroom each night to sleep on the living room floor.

An Awkward Question For Iraq War Hawks

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


Jeffrey Shaffer

If conditions in Iraq are now in good shape and the bad guys are on the run, why is the US allowing thousands of Iraqis to leave their country and re-settle here?

500,000 Iraqi Refugees In 2007: Report

AP | WILLIAM C. MANN | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A half-million Iraqis fled their embattled country in 2007, the third consecutive year more Iraqis were displaced than any other na...

Cooked Books: Iraqi Figures On Returning Refugees Are "Massaged"

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Last week, Iraq's minister of displacement and migration, Abdul-Samad Rahman Sultan, announced that 1,600 Iraqis were returning every day, which works...