A Canadian who said U.S. authorities deported him to Syria where he was tortured should have been able to contest the order in a U.S. court, his lawyer told an appeals court on Friday.
The agreement with Syria, which is home to 1.2 million to 1.4 million Iraqi refugees, cleared a major obstacle to the Bush administration?s resettlement program.
WASHINGTON -- Syria has agreed to allow U.S. interviewers into the country to screen Iraqi refugees for admission to the United States, clearing a major obstacle to the Bush administration's resettlement program, the State Department said Thursday.
Syria agreed to allow US officials into the country to vet refugees from Iraq for possible admission, the US says.
Syria has agreed to allow U.S. personnel into the country to process refugees from the Iraq war for admission into the United States, a senior State Department official said on Thursday.
Syria has agreed to grant visas to several US immigration officials to meet Iraqi refugees seeking to emigrate to the United States, a senior US official said Thursday.
Nearly 2,000 Palestinian refugees have been trapped in camps at the Iraq-Syria border and they are now facing deteriorating living conditions, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. The population of Al Tanf camp in the no-ma ...
A State Department official said Thursday that Syria or its supporters may use violence to interfere in Lebanon's upcoming presidential elections.
Syria has agreed to allow U.S. officials into the country to process refugees from war-torn Iraq for admission into the United States, a senior State Department official said on Thursday.
Syria has agreed to allow U.S. interviewers into the country to screen Iraqi refugees for admission to the United States, clearing a major obstacle to the Bush administration's resettlement program, The Associated Press has learned.