Gay and "emo" youths in Iraq are in serious danger: between 14 and 40 youths have been murdered in recent weeks - many bludgeoned with cement blocks in an allusion... read more →
The number of refugees admitted to the United States in the 2011 fiscal year was 23 percent lower than the amount admitted in the FY 2010, according to figures released... read more →
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released its fiscal year 2010 annual report on the use of special immigrant status for Iraqis and Afghan refugees. According to the report, 1,045 Iraqis... read more →
The escalating conflict in Syria has many of the one million Iraqi refugees there again facing civil unrest, as well as an intensifying regional sectarian animosity, according to the Wall Street... read more →
Domestic violence is on the rise In Iraq, and there are few places for abused and vulnerable women to seek refuge, an Al-Jazeera story reports. Rights groups have said that domestic... read more →
The State Department may halve the staff at the American embassy in Iraq - which, as the largest embassy in the world, costs $6 billion a year, according to a New... read more →
A New York Times editorial reminds us that The United States has a "moral obligation" to screen Iraqi asylum applicants transparently and quickly - especially those who risked their lives to help Americans.... read more →
Current American policy and practice bars the use of videoconferencing to conduct initial interviews with Iraqis seeking admission to the United States as refugees. This practice has stalled the processing... read more →
About 10,000 Iraqi refugees wait in Syria for the interviews with the US Government that will determine their future and that of their families, the New York Times reports. But... read more →
BAGHDAD, 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - Suicide attacks, assassinations and bombings in Iraq have claimed the lives of at least 265 people and injured hundreds of others since 18 December,... read more →