With money gone, refugees reluctantly return to homeland
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DAMASCUS - Their money gone, Iman Faleh and her family packed their belongings to reluctantly return to Baghdad - a journey they said was like going to death row.
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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 U.S. has paid out millions to help Iraqis rebuild their war-damaged homes. But cash is limited and the process can be slow
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Many report being newly alone, disoriented by the refugee camps, and deeply longing for home.
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For dozens of illegal immigrant families, a gymnasium outside Paris has become a temporary home. They sleep shoulder-to-shoulder, their dingy mattresses piled high with necessities and small treasures: cooking pans, diapers, stuffed animals.
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Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.
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Stunned residents picked their way through a wasteland of mud and rubble to leave storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the government said it had run out of money to pay for relief services.
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The governmentâs inability to manage a reverse exodus has left the most vulnerable in an uneasy limbo.
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TUCSON After escaping death threats in a town north of Baghdad, Nadhum Ali al-Hasnawi and his family landed in the United States six weeks ago as refugees, hoping to build a new life for themselves. But since its arrival, the family has rarely left their apartment. "It is like Iraq all over again...
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TIRANA, Albania -- Ahktar Qassim Basit says he is not angry about the four years he spent as a US prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before his captors mumbled a brief apology and flew him to this drab Balkan capital to begin a new life as a refugee.
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Zeinab Haidar fled her bombed-out home in the back of a pickup truck without a single possession, weaving along mountain roads until she finally reached a pocket of safety Saturday. Tens of thousands had beaten her there, and the city was teetering under the weight of refugees.
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Millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing violence and sectarian cleansing after the U.S.-led invasion four years ago are finding it nearly impossible to get safe harbor in America, including those who risked their lives helping President George W. Bush's war effort.
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ORAPWOYO, Uganda  - Nine years ago, Santonino Otok fled his home in the green fields of northern Uganda for a refugee camp, fearing attack by marauding rebels.
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CAIRO, EGYPTâTwo old friends in Sudan fled for their lives this spring, separately, each powerless to aid the other&#39;s migration north to Egypt, where they both sought refuge.
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Delvina da Costa complained of squalid  conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she  has lived for almost two years, but the prospect of returning  to her old neighborhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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At daybreak, a stream of refugees emerged from a narrow jungle path onto the runway of the wrecked air base on this island, a remote Indian outpost in the Bay of Bengal.
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A famous expatriate returns to the homeland only to find his dissident brethren refusing to welcome him and accusing him of being a quisling for the Communist regime