Holmes said equally troubling is that newly displaced persons continue to outnumber by a wide margin those who return home or are resettled.
ABC News cites unnamed sources who say Shahram Amiri disappeared in 2009 as part of a long-planned operation to get him out of Iran and resettled in the United States.
The UN refugee agency says the African refugees, who had been living in a camp in southern Chad, will be resettled in the U.S. States of Kentucky, Texas, Iowa and Utah.
