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Dec 21, 2011

Stable and Self-reliant?

President Obama believes the U.S. is leaving behind a “stable and self-reliant Iraq.” But as

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Dec 21, 2011

Increased Security Checks Prevent Iraqis Who Aided U.S. Forces From Obtaining Visas

Several thousand Iraqis, PBS News reports, including many who helped the United States during

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Dec 21, 2011

A More Just Refugee Admissions Procedure

Read IRAP’s op-ed on refugee access to legal counsel appearing in the Christian Science Monitor 

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Nov 28, 2011

“Is this the best we can do for those who aided us in Iraq?”

“I did it because I like my country and the Mahdi army was working for

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Nov 18, 2011

LGBT Refugees in Beirut

In addition to the ordinary challenges of being a refugee in a country that hasn’t

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Nov 18, 2011

The Plight of Iraqi Refugees in Syria

Between the U.S. government’s increased security check regime and Syria’s refusal to grant visas to

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Nov 14, 2011

“Whatever one’s views of this war, we should agree that our country has a responsibility to Iraqi interpreters”

Joe Coon, an Iraq War veteran, writes in the Oregonian about the struggle

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Nov 11, 2011

IRAP in The Guardian: This Veterans Day, We Must Remember the Iraqi Interpreters

Michael Breen, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project co-founder and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan,

Nov 6, 2011

IRAP in the LA Times: “I feel as if I am in prison. There are no guards, but I can’t…

An Iraqi translator for U.S. forces whose first name is Tariq describes his move away

Oct 28, 2011

Camp Ashraf: Refuge in (not just from) Iraq

Parliamentarians and jurists met in London on Tuesday to call upon the United

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Oct 27, 2011

The Supervisor Locator– the US Government Aims to Help Iraqis Establish Contact With Former Military and DoD Supervisors

The DoD announces a new tool to help Iraqis who formerly worked for the

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Oct 26, 2011

Becca Heller in FP: “For the nearly 3 million Iraqis displaced by the war, returning home is still not an…

Josh Rogin, writing for Foreign Policy, calls attention to U.S. neglect of Iraqi refugees in