Barham Salih, former Iraq President, appointed U.N. refugee chief, breaking tradition of leaders from major donor countries.

The move breaks ‍with a tradition of appointing leaders from major donor countries. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

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

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

The first and most important difference is freedom of movement, the basis of any journalistic work,” said NoonPost’s reporter ...

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

Israel's cabinet has decided to give legal status to 19 settlements in the occupied West Bank, including two that were ...

Palestinian sources dismissed Israeli claims circulating over the past two days that the Islamic Jihad movement is refusing ...

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is coming to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater. This beloved ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian ...

A symposium on the English edition of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" was held in Nairobi, capital ...