UN elects former Iraqi President Barham Salih as head of refugee agency
Iraq’s former President Barham Salih. File | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday (December 18, 2025) approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, its first from the Middle East since the late 1970s. The 193-member world body elected the 65-year-old Kurdish politician as…
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