Iraqi Refugees

EU To Accept 10,000 Iraqi Refugees

BBC News | Posted 11.28.2008 | World

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The European Union says it is ready to accept up to 10,000 Iraqi refugees, many of whom are living in extreme hardship in Jordan and Syria. The agree...

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Iraqi Refugees to Government's Return Offer: "No, Thanks"

Jennifer Utz | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics

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Jennifer Utz

The Iraqi government is offering one million dinars, the equivalent of $850 USD, and free plane tickets to any refugee family wishing to go back -- so far less than 400 people have accepted the offer.

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How Will New U.S. Admin. Deliver on U.S. Pledge to Iraqi Refugees?

Sheri Fink | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Sheri Fink

President-elect Barack Obama will inherit an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Iraq, including one of the largest population displacements the world has seen in many decades.

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The Surge "Success" Debunked

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Luis Carlos Montalván

Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.

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Tens Of Thousands Of Iraqi Refugees May Enter The US In 2009

Reuters | Susan Cornwell | Posted 09.12.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON - The United States has surpassed its goal of admitting 12,000 Iraqi refugees this year and expects more, perhaps tens of thousands, next ...

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Refugees In America Re-Build "Home" on Hope and Prayer

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 08.15.2008 | Chicago

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Naazish YarKhan

Terror and persecution force refugees to flee their homelands and of the more than two million Iraqi's whose homes and livelihoods have been lost sinc...

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US Vets Return to Middle East to Help Iraqi Refugees

Karin Zeitvogel | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

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Karin Zeitvogel

I'm on the first day of a rapid-fire visit to Jordan, which has provided a safe haven for an estimated 750,000 refugees from Iraq. We also hope to work out if we can provide relief to them.

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McCain to Obama: Could You Pick Up a Few Things for Me at The Baghdad Market?

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

This is a good time to remember John McCain's last visit to Iraq, a visit that he now claims helped form his war policy. How did that go?

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Obama, McCain Skirt Iraqi Refugee Issue

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home

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Hanna Ingber Win

"If our Iraqi translators are allowed to be murdered, I don't see how we could imagine winning hearts or minds in Fallujah or Ramadi or Baghdad. It's one of the clearest moral urgencies that the war has presented."

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Kristof: Iraqi Children Our Moral Responsibility

New York Times | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

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The dirty little secret of the Iraq war isn't in Baghdad or Basra. Rather, it's found in the squalid brothels of Damascus and the poorest neighborhood...

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Iraqi Allies Struggling in the U.S. -- What Do We Do to Help?

Jane Leu | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Jane Leu

Americans in Iraq sought out talented professionals for their skills, college educations, professional experience, but in the US, these refugees receive the lowest paying jobs, if any.

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500,000 Iraqi Refugees In 2007: Report

AP | WILLIAM C. MANN | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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

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John McCain Dismisses the War's Collateral Damage

Laila Al-Arian | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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Laila Al-Arian

America's occupation of Iraq has destroyed not only the people suffering under it, but the troops who were asked to carry it out.

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U.N. Teams With Google Earth To Track Refugees, Educate Public

Washington Post | Mike Musgrove | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

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Can Google Earth save the world? The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees announced a new partnership with the search engine this week. The goal: To u...

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Dana Rohrabacher Offers Iraqi Refugees Some False Hope

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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After five years of war in Iraq, plenty of Iraqis are still trying to make a go of it: enjoying the long government recesses and the vacations from re...

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Iraq's Refugees: Five Years Later

Ken Bacon | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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Ken Bacon

Governments in Washington and London aren't paying much attention to Iraqi displacement, but neither Iraq nor the region will be stable until Iraqis feel that it is safe to go home.

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Saving the Friends We Left Behind

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

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Paul Rieckhoff

He was my most effective weapon in Iraq. Without him by my side, I was essentially deaf and blind. His name is Esam, and he served as my interpreter.

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Think You Know the "Godsquad?"

William Fisher | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

All evangelicals aren't loyal Bushies. They aren't even all Republicans. And they're certainly not homogenous. On many, many issues, they're pretty much like most of those who are reading this column.

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Reading The Pictures: The Forgotten Iraqi Exiles

Michael Shaw | Posted 01.17.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

2008-01-17-amer_shaw_fp.jpg In response to an inattentive domestic media and the lack of visual documentation, Lori Grinker has been pursuing the story of Iraqi civilians fleeing the war.

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US Admitting Fewer And Fewer Iraq Refugees Despite Bush's Pledge To Do More

AP | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

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U.S. admissions of Iraqi refugees are nose-diving amid bureaucratic in-fighting despite the Bush administration's pledge to boost them to roughly 1,00...

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Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Iraqi Refugees. . . What? Wait a Minute.

Russ Wellen | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

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Russ Wellen

The death and forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis can no longer be ignored. The citizens of every American city or town need to provide jobs and lodging for Iraqis.

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Pro-American Iraqi Contractors Denied Resettlement In US

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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Thousands of Iraqis whose support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq has put them and their families in grave danger at home are being excluded from a ne...

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US Failing To Meet Iraqi Refugee Target

US News | Kevin Whitelaw | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

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The United States accepted only some 450 Iraqi refugees in October, well short of the Bush administration's stated goal of 1,000 a month. The figure ...

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Syria Closes Its Borders, Requires 1.5 Million Iraqi Refugees To Return To Iraq

New York Times | THANASSIS CAMBANIS | Posted 10.21.2007 | Home

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Long the only welcoming country in the region for Iraqi refugees, Syria has closed its borders to all but a small group of Iraqis and imposed new visa...

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Talk to Syria for the Sake of Iraqi Refugees

Bill Frelick | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

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Bill Frelick

Washington's failure to provide support for Iraqi refugees in Syria has only punished the refugees, not the Syrian government.

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