iraqi refugees

More than 14,000 Iraqi refugees are expected to enter the U.S. this year, and most of them have gravitated to Detroit.

But the economy is so bleak that the State Department no longer wants to allow Iraqis to settle in Michigan unless they have immediate relatives already living there.

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Filmmaker Nick Broomfield has made a dramatic movie about the 2005 massacre in the farming town of Haditha, Iraq.

The soldiers in the film are played by Iraq war veterans and Iraqi refugees living in Jordan play the parts of Iraqi civilians and insurgents.

Broomfield and actor/soldier Elliot Ruiz, who served with the U.S. Marines in Iraq in 2003, discuss the film.

Human rights groups in Sweden are outraged that the government has decided to send Iraqi refugees back to Iraq.

The Swedish government is citing an improved security situation in Iraq as the reason for returning the refugees.

Sweden has taken in more than 20,000 Iraqi refugees since the war began -- more than any other Western country.

Reuters - The United States admitted 444 Iraqi refugees in February, according to preliminary figures released by a U.S. official on Saturday, up from 375 in January but below the pace needed to meet its 12,000 annual target.

For a year now, the United States has had a special program to resettle Iraqis -- translators and others -- who've helped American interests in that country.

Some of those who have made it to the U.S. are having a hard time finding suitable jobs.

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Iraqi refugees from Syria are returning to Iraq in large numbers. Better security and other incentives have lured some 25,000 since September.

Most say it's too hard to stay in Syria. Doctor Said Hakki, president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, discusses some of the challenges they face.

For the first time since the Iraq war began, more Iraqi refugees are returning from Syria than fleeing there.

The movement is still a trickle, but growing numbers of refugees are considering going home.

Hundreds of Iraqi refugees boarded buses for home on Tuesday in the first convoy from an Iraqi-funded effort to speed the return of families that fled the country's violence and insecurity.