Iraq continues to host more than 1.3 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), with all displacement camps ...

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

The talks further addressed the continuing threat posed by ISIS militants, with both sides stressing that insecurity and ...

"UNHCR is particularly concerned at the present situation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where refugees are arriving at a rate of 800-900 people per day - double the rate of just three months ago," ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two Iraqi military planes are scheduled to fly to Libya to repatriate more than 150 stranded ...

Barham Salih will become the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees — JIM WATSON Former Iraqi president Barham Salih is set to become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, according ...

KAWEGORSK, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, April 8 (UNHCR) - The classroom is Spartan. Student numbers are high and teachers have not been paid for months, but deputy principal Mohammed Zekkhi refuses to ...

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

Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president, becomes the first head of state to lead the UNHCR amid rising refugee needs.