GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has recommended that former Iraqi President Barham Salih become the ...

GENEVA: Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under Saddam Hussein, has been appointed the ...

Former Iraqi president Barham Salih is set to become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, according to a ...

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

Verisheh Moradi, a member of the Community of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) who previously fought against the ...

Former Iraqi president and senior Kurdish statesman Barham Salih, has been appointed as the next head of the UN refugee agency, according to reports. Mr Salih's appointment as the High Commissioner ...

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

I had been invited to Diyarbakir by the Human Rights Association, which does courageous and impressive work under conditions of constant serious threat. The preceding days I spent in Istanbul at the ...

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

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

Mother of Jack Letts, held by Kurds since 2017, says clock is ticking as experts warn refusal to repatriate detainees, ...