Latest News for: salih

Edit

Caught between Damascus and Qandil, SDF integration hangs in the balance

Syria Direct 10 Feb 2026
Salih Muslim, a member of the presidential council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)—established in 2003 as a Syrian offshoot of the PKK and now the political umbrella of the SDF—has described the ...
Edit

UNHCR’s Salih calls for global shift from managing to resolving displacement (UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Public Technologies 09 Feb 2026
UNHCR's Salih calls for global shift from managing to resolving displacement ... UNHCR's Barham Salih meets South Sudanese refugee Tololinda Nomoi Juma in Kenya's Kalobeyei settlement, where she attends school alongside refugee and local children.
Edit

Erdogan to visit Egypt for talks on bilateral ties, Palestinian issue

Daily News Egypt 03 Feb 2026
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for talks covering bilateral cooperation and regional developments, including the Palestinian issue, Türkiye’s ambassador to Cairo Salih Mutlu Şen said ... ....
Edit

The first refugee to lead the UN refugee agency calls this a 'very difficult moment ...

Newsday 27 Jan 2026
Without ever mentioning the Trump administration or its policies directly, Barham Salih in an interview with The Associated Press said his office will have to be inventive to confront the crisis, which includes losing well over $1 billion in U.S.
Edit

In Chad, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee's (UNHCR) Salih calls for urgent refugee support ...

APO 17 Jan 2026
During his first official overseas trip as High Commissioner, Salih met Sudanese refugee families who had fled the vicious fighting in Darfur only days earlier; many had been displaced multiple times since the conflict began.
Edit

In Chad, UNHCR’s Salih calls for urgent refugee support to save and rebuild lives (UNHCR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Public Technologies 16 Jan 2026
In Chad, UNHCR's Salih calls for urgent refugee support to save and rebuild lives ... Salih spoke with women who had been raped, and to people whose parents had been killed, arriving in Chad with only what they could carry and the hope of safety.
Edit

Why Is It So Hard to Set a 9/11 Trial Date? Here’s What to Know.

New York Times 16 Jan 2026
Prosecutors want jury selection to start in January 2027. That would be a quarter century after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people ... .
Edit

In Kenya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Salih urges greater solidarity and solutions ...

APO 12 Jan 2026
On his first official visit as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Barham Salih today called for stronger global support to develop the solutions refugees need to rebuild their lives.
Edit

U.S. Appeals Court Won’t Take Up Case to Resurrect 9/11 Plea Deal

New York Times 07 Jan 2026
The decision removes a chance for the defendants to resolve the long-running case with the death penalty taken off the table. Instead, pretrial hearings are likely to resume ... .
Edit

UN elects former Iraqi president Barham Salih to lead UNHCR

France24 19 Dec 2025
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the UN refugee agency, the first from the Middle East since the late 1970s. The 193-member body elected the 65-year-old by consensus ... .
×