Yesterday on "Here & Now" NPR interviewed Alaa, who worked for western media organizations in Baghdad and who now works with the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project in New York, and... read more →
While USCIS continues to refine and improve the process of conducting security checks on Iraqi refugee and SIV applicants, Iraqis who worked for coalition forces, and even Iraqis connected to... read more →
Western officials feared that instability would worsen as U.S. troops left Iraq, but they hoped the political turmoil that was in the works even before the official withdrawal -- with... read more →
President Obama believes the U.S. is leaving behind a "stable and self-reliant Iraq." But as Shiite Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki demands that Kurdish leaders turn over Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi,... read more →
Several thousand Iraqis, PBS News reports, including many who helped the United States during the Iraq war, are caught in a grim race between death threats in their own country... read more →
Read IRAP's op-ed on refugee access to legal counsel appearing in the Christian Science Monitor here. Refugees applying for resettlement to the United States face an unknown and complicated legal system.... read more →