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Source: Reuters * HRW says attacks wounded "unknown number of villagers" * Iran has denied its troops crossed Iraqi border DUBAI, July 13 (Reuters) - Iranian attacks against Kurdish guerrillas that ...

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Refugees who had to leave their camp in Iran have been provided with winterized shelter and NFI's when returning to the Afghan side of the border. A NRC emergency team has recently completed the ...

HERAT Sunday, March 22, 2009 (IRIN) - The more than 1,000 children deported from Iran to Afghanistan’s western province of Herat in 2008 face poverty and are at risk of abuse, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and provincial authorities.

DUBAI Sunday, May 10, 2009 (IRIN) - The Iranian government is seeking greater assistance from international NGOs to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of refugees, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Some international NGOs already work with refugees in Iran, but several left the country earlier this decade because of difficult working conditions.

Source: UNHCR High Commissioner Guterres visits an Iranian camp for refugees and calls on the international community to do more to ensure they can finally go home.

High Commissioner Guterres visits an Iranian camp for refugees and calls on the international community to do more to ensure they can finally go home.

Source: UNHCR More than quarter-of-a-million Afghans have returned home with UNHCR help so far this year from Pakistan and Iran, many due to problems faced in exile.

UNHCR has assisted more than a quarter-million Afghans to return home so far this year from Pakistan and Iran, many of them reportedly due to economic and security uncertainties faced in exile. Since January,...

More than quarter-of-a-million Afghans have returned home with UNHCR help so far this year from Pakistan and Iran, many due to problems faced in exile.