News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
More than 20,000 people displaced by the Georgia-Russia conflict returned to their homes in the South Ossetia buffer zone last week, U.N. officials said. The conflict in the Georgian province of South Ossetia displaced about 133,000 people to...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
High Commissioner for Refugees says a large number of people displaced by violence in Georgia have returned to their villages in the buffer zone around the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Geneva. UN refugee agency spokesman Ron Redmond says...
News Source: Middle East Security News
| about 1 year ago
The United Nations Friday condemned the attacks on the Christian community in northern Iraq as the number of displaced approaches 10,000...High Commissioner for Refugees said around 9,360 people have fled violence in and around the city of Mosul that...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
The war between Georgia and Russia in early August drove more than 130,000 Georgians from their homes as they fled bombing, shelling and looting. Two months later, most of them have been able to return, but tens of thousands are still living in...
News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| about 1 year ago
About half of the Christians in Iraq's northern town of Mosul, nearly 10,000 people, have fled in the past week after attacks and threats, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday...High Commissioner for Refugees said Iraq's ministry of...
News Source: USA Today
| about 1 year ago
The U.N. refugee agency says 20,000 Georgians displaced by the war with Russia have returned home since Russian troops pulled out of the so-called buffer zone around the breakaway South Ossetia region...High Commissioner for Refugees says people...