Iraqi Government Urges Displaced to Return Home
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BAGHDAD -- Every few days, an Iraqi army officer with a thick mustache and a black beret goes on television to deliver a battery of statistics intended to demonstrate the government's progress in bringing security to the country.
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The United Nations refugee agency and Nigerian officials appealed to recalcitrant Liberian refugees to go back home, warning that time and hospitality were fast running out for them.
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The Bush administration hopes to resettle about 7,000 Iraqi refugees to the United States this year, the State Department said Wednesday. "We have a responsibility to respond to the immediate needs of Iraqis who have fled violence and persecution," said U.S. Undersecretary Paula Dobriansky. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees estimates up to 2 million Iraqis have fled since the war began.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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Some 80,000 Iraqis have fled their   homes and registered with the government as refugees over the   past two months, data showed on Thursday, taking the total in   seven months of sectarian violence to a quarter of a million.
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Viewpoint: The return of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatens the Maliki government but does not promise any more stability
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Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, unaware of what awaits them in a city altered in the sectarian warfare.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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Iraqis who fled last month's U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but others turned back as fighting continued to rage.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other high ranking officials sought to reassure Iraqis after Fridayâs pet market bombings.
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The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday called for $261 million this year to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis driven from their homes by violence.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's prime minister flew to the holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday and declared order had been restored after gunbattles among Shi'ite factions killed 52 people and forced hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to flee.
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The Iraqi government declared a 60-day state of emergency Sunday in response to the escalation of violence by militants. The emergency declaration covers the entire nation, with the exception of Kurdish-run areas in the northern part of Iraq.
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The Iraqi government called on all armed groups to join a cease-fire declared this week by Moktada al-Sadr.
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The war has created 2 million Iraqi exiles. An intimate look at their new lives - and why the U.S. should let more in
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WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their homeland are likely to seek refugee status in the United States, humanitarian groups said, putting intense pressure on the Bush administration to reexamine a policy that authorizes only 500 Iraqis to be resettled here next year.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Iraqis who fled last month's  U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday  to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but  others turned back as fighting raged in one part of town.