Salih, who fled Saddam Hussein’s regime, campaigned for job on basis that he knows what it is like to be a refugee.

Just one year ago Syria's brutal and seemingly eternal Assad family dictatorship was toppled.The long-entrenched Russian-backed regime fell in a matter of ten days to a series of lightning offensives ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended that former Iraqi President Barham Salih become the next head of the ...

A Danish intelligence agency report has warned that the United States is using its economic power to assert its will and threaten military force against both allies and adversaries.

ANTI-RACISTS, many of them Christians, will challenge far-right agitator “Tommy Robinson” over his attempt to identify ...

Austria’s centrist government passed the new law, which takes effect next year, after years of pressure from the far right.

Following a gathering of Council of Europe states on International Human Rights Day, 27 countries called for “migration ...

France's National Court of Asylum ruled that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near ...

The fall of Uvira, the second largest city in South Kivu province, to the Rwandan-backed armed group March 23 Movement (M23) ...

Kao Kalia Yang reads her children’s books at the Ordway; the Guthrie stages a West Side Story-inspired play; and two exhibits put the American dream under a microscope.

Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under Saddam Hussein, has been appointed the next U.N. High ...

GENEVA, Dec 12 - Iraq's former president Barham Salih has been chosen as the next High Commissioner for Refugees for the ...