“I did it because I like my country and the Mahdi army was working for Iran,” Salam Hamrani, an Iraqi refugee in Cyprus, tells his good friend Trudy Rubin, columnist... read more →
In addition to the ordinary challenges of being a refugee in a country that hasn't ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention (and Iraq's neighbors have not), LGBTI refugees in Lebanon, Syria,... read more →
Between the U.S. government's increased security check regime and Syria's refusal to grant visas to DHS refugee ajudicators, Iraqis in Damascus find themselves stuck in the midst of an increasingly... read more →
Between the U.S. government's increased security check regime and Syria's refusal to grant visas to DHS refugee ajudicators, Iraqis in Damascus find themselves stuck in the midst of an increasingly... read more →
Joe Coon, an Iraq War veteran, writes in the Oregonian about the struggle he went through to get his former interpreter and close friend, Bandar, safely to the United States... read more →
Michael Breen, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project co-founder and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, reminds us today in the Guardian that as we welcome the homecoming of our soldiers in Iraq,... read more →
An Iraqi translator for U.S. forces whose first name is Tariq describes his move away from the relative safety of his military base in anticipation of U.S. troop withdrawal, and... read more →