Iraqi refugees return back home from Saudi Arabia

Some 38 Iraq refugees returned back last week to their country in the framework of the voluntary return back program supervised by the UNHCR for the Iraqi refugees affairs in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi daily al-Watan said on Sunday quoting well-informed sources at the UNHCR that a sum of 380,000 Saudi riyals, of 10,000 riyals for each Iraqi refugees who decided to return back to Iraq.

At the meantime some 5273 Iraqi refugees so far remained in North Saudi Arabia out of 30,000 Iraqi refugees who entered Saudi Arabia during the Gulf war.