“People underestimate just how much these interpreters are on the line of battle,” said Katherine Reisner, National Policy Director for the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project. "They’re doing this all for... read more →
“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 →
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 →