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Iraq closes camps for displaced, year after last battle against ISIS

10-1-2019 < RT 24 119 words
 

Iraq is closing its camps for the displaced in the western Anbar province, a little over a year since it fought its last battle against Islamic State (ISIS). The closures are casting vulnerable families into a maelstrom of peril as many cannot return home since they have been accused by their tribes of collaborating with IS, AP said. Others worry there is no work or housing to return to. Stragglers are being sent to two camps deep in Anbar. When IS swept through north Iraq in 2014, the militants triggered a migration and displacement crisis as millions fled their homes. Some 1.8 million people out of Iraq’s population of 38 million are still waiting to return home.


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