Today there are an estimated 25 million to 40 million Kurds, mostly Muslim, about half in Turkey and most of the others in Iran, Iraq and Syria. They are arguably the largest ethnic group in the world ...
ERBIL, Iraq, June 23 (UNHCR) - Eighty refugees returned to Iraq's mainly Kurdish north today as UNHCR and the Iranian government opened a newly-opened border crossing at Haj Omran to facilitate ...
AHWAZ, Iran, April 23 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency staff in Iran who have been poised to help possible new Iraqi refugees are all too familiar with the potential problems - after all, they are ...