Returning to ruins, displaced Iraqi farmers find help to rebuild
Displaced for two years following ISIS advance in 2014, returning Iraqis in Yathrib benefit from irrigation and home rehabilitation projects to reestablish their farms. By Charlie Dunmore and Edith Champagne in Yathrib, Iraq “When we left, the oranges on the trees...
Latest refugee influx to Iraq passes 10,000 mark as humanitarian needs mount in Syria
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Teams from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in northern Iraq report that last night more...
Refugee arrivals to Iraq pass 7,000 mark in seven days
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. A week after first refugees crossed from northeast Syria into Iraq, the arrivals to...