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  • July 2008

    • US Expands Visa Program for Iraqis Tenfold

      New York Times  |  Jul 25, 08 7:57 AM CDT

      US Expands Visa Program for Iraqis Tenfold

      (Newser) - The US embassy in Baghdad announced a major expansion of its visa program for Iraqi employees of the American government, raising tenforld the number of work permits it currently offers. The move is the latest step by the Bush administration to answer criticism that it has neglected the Iraqis, particularly translators and supervisors, whose lives have been endangered because of their association with the US, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Baghdad  • State Department  • visa  • Iraqi refugees  • US embassy in Baghdad  • translation

  • June 2008

    • Refugees: Iraq's Unspoken Crisis

      New York Times  |  Jun 26, 08 6:56 AM CDT

      Refugees: Iraq's Unspoken Crisis

      (Newser) - New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof travels to Jordan to report on one of the unintended consequences of the Iraq war: a regional refugee crisis. About 2 million Iraqis, mostly Sunnis, have fled since the war, living mostly in Jordan and Syria in deplorable conditions. "They are the new Palestinians," writes Kristof, "the 21st-century Arab diaspora that threatens the region’s stability." More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Middle East  • Syria  • Jordan  • Sunnis  • Iraqi refugees

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • US to Admit More Iraqi Refugees

      CNN  |  Feb 5, 08 3:47 AM CST

      US to Admit More Iraqi Refugees

      (Newser) - The State Department plans to admit 12,000 Iraqi refugees into the US by September, despite resettling only 375 so far this year, CNN reports. Ambassador James Foley, charged with the task of accelerating resettlement, vowed to reporters that the pace will pick up in the coming months. The US promised to resettle 7,000 Iraqis in America last year but only moved in 1,600. More »

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      Iraq  • Syria  • State Department  • Department of Homeland Security  • refugee  • Jordan  • Iraqi refugees  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees

  • December 2007

    • Iraq Invites Refugees Home, but Home Is Gone

      Washington Post  |  Dec 16, 07 5:35 PM CST

      Iraq Invites Refugees Home, but Home Is Gone

      (Newser) - Baghdad shocked Washington and the UN last month by inviting home 1.4 million refugees from Syria, the Washington Post reports. The UN warned against it, saying exiles would face poverty, but Iraq started a bus line to transport them back. Many found their homes looted and neighborhoods redrawn along sectarian lines—and with no official plan in place, they burdened relatives by moving in. More »

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      Iraq  • US military  • Baghdad  • David Petraeus  • Syria  • refugee  • Iraqi refugees

    • Transient Iraqi Band Hits Turkey

      BBC  |  Dec 7, 07 6:23 PM CST

      Transient Iraqi Band Hits Turkey

      (Newser) - Four young Iraqis formed Acrassicauda—Baghdad’s only heavy-metal band—in 2001, and since the 2003 invasion have struggled to keep their music (and themselves) alive to prove culture could still exist in their homeland. But playing a Western style of music made them a target, and like many Iraqis, the BBC reports, Arcassicauda fled, first to Syria, then to Turkey. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraqi refugees  • heavy metal

  • November 2007

    • Iraq Staggered by Flood of Returning Refugees

      New York Times  |  Nov 30, 07 4:00 AM CST

      Iraq Staggered by Flood of Returning Refugees

      (Newser) - Better security in Baghdad has produced a dangerous and largely unforeseen problem: what to do with an influx of refugees streaming back from Syria and elsewhere now that it's safe to return. Many find their former homes have been occupied and the stranded refugees have few places to turn for food and shelter, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Nouri al-Maliki  • Syria  • surge  • Iraqi refugees  • Iraq security  • Ahmad Chalabi

    • 6,000 Iraqi Sunnis Vow to Aid US

      Associated Press  |  Nov 29, 07 7:44 AM CST

      6,000 Iraqi Sunnis Vow to Aid US

      (Newser) - Almost 6,000 Sunni Arab civilians in Iraq turned against Al-Qaeda yesterday and signed a pact to help US forces police possible insurgent escape routes. As insurgents seek to gain a foothold in the semi-autonomous north, American officials hailed the alliance, which is the Iraq war’s largest single volunteer effort, AP reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • al-Qaeda  • insurgents  • US Army  • Syria  • Kurds  • Iraqi refugees  • Sunni leaders  • Kirkuk

    • Thousands Returning to Safer Baghdad

      Times (UK)  |  Nov 21, 07 12:34 PM CST

      Thousands Returning to Safer Baghdad

      (Newser) - Iraqi refugees are returning to Baghdad by the thousands, convinced that security has dramatically improved, reports the Times of London. The Iraqi embassy in Damascus has even organized a secure convoy to escort Iraqis home next Monday and has posted signs offering free bus and train rides home. “There is a large movement of people going back to Iraq," said a United Nations official. More »

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      Iraq  • Syria  • security  • refugee  • Iraqi refugees

    • Syria to Let US Screen Iraqi Refugees

      Associated Press  |  Nov 9, 07 9:30 AM CST

      Syria to Let US Screen Iraqi Refugees

      (Newser) - Syria, home to more than 1 million refugees from Iraq, will for the first time allow US officials into the country to clear the way for their possible resettlement in America, the AP reports. The US, under criticism for not doing more to ease the growing refugee crisis in the region, has promised to begin taking in 1,000 a month, Reuters reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Syria  • homeland security  • Iraqi refugees

  • September 2007

    • Crocker: Speed Up Iraqi Refugee Policy

      Washington Post  |  Sep 17, 07 10:41 AM CDT

      Crocker: Speed Up Iraqi Refugee Policy

      (Newser) - Ambassador Ryan Crocker says the US needs to get moving on admitting Iraqi refugees. In a State Department memo titled "Iraqi Refugee Processing: Can We Speed It Up?", Crocker writes that thousands of desperate Iraqis are facing bottlenecks to their resettlement, and that at the present rate it would take two years to admit the 10,000 refugees referred to the US by the United Nations. More »

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      Iraq  • United Nations  • United States  • David Petraeus  • Ryan Crocker  • refugee  • Iraqi refugees

  • August 2007

    • Iraq's Upper Class Flees

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 20, 07 4:08 PM CDT

      Iraq's Upper Class Flees

      (Newser) - More than 2 million Iraqis have left home, mostly crossing the borders into neighboring Jordan and Syria. And the upper class has been the first to go—robbing the country of the doctors, engineers and government officials necessary to rebuild it. With one of ten Iraqis living abroad, the war has become one of the largest refugee crises since the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, Der Spiegel reports. More »

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      Iraq  • inflation  • Syria  • unemployment  • refugee  • Jordan  • Iraqi refugees  • asylum  • overcrowding

  • May 2007

    • Iraqi Refugees Resort to Prostitution

      New York Times  |  May 29, 07 11:09 AM CDT

      Iraqi Refugees Resort to Prostitution

      (Newser) - As Iraqi refugees flood across the border into Syria, more and more women are turning to prostitution to support themselves and their families. The Times visits the Damascus area, where some women approach men on the street, some work at clubs known as "casinos," and some are even pimped by family members. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Syria  • prostitution  • refugee  • Iraqi refugees

    • Dems: Admit Iraqi Refugees

      Washington Post  |  May 10, 07 1:00 PM CDT

      Dems: Admit Iraqi Refugees

      (Newser) - With Iraq war refugees numbering in the millions and as many as 70,000 joining their ranks each month, House Democrats will introduce a bill boosting the number of displaced Iraqis eligible for resettlement in the U.S. A total of 18 Iraqi refugees entered the U.S. in February and March, the Washington Post reports, while Sweden admitted 8,000. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Congress  • United States  • immigration  • refugee  • Iraqi refugees

  • March 2007

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