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Iraqi refugees have mainly fled into urban centers across region, rather than in refugee camps. [1] There are roughly 2 million Iraqi refugees living in countries neighboring Iraq [5] [6] and 95% of them still live in the Middle East - although other nations in Europe have begun to accept Iraqi refugees. [4]
The camp in October 2019. The al-Hawl refugee camp (also al-Hol refugee camp, [1] Arabic: مخيم الهول للاجئين, Kurdish: کەمپی ھۆڵ, romanized: Kempa holê) [2] is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria, close to the Syria-Iraq border, which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [3]
The Makhmur refugee camp (also spelled Makhmour or Maxmur) was founded in 1998, and is located in the Makhmur District, [1] some 60 Km southwest to Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG). [2] About 12,000 Kurdish refugees, who fled the civil war between Kurds and the Turkish army in the 1990s, live in this refugee camp. [3]
Edwin Shuker left Iraq due to the persecution of Jewish people in 1971. Roza Kurdo escaped killings in Iraqi Kurdistan and fled to the UK with her mother in 2001. Iraq war refugees: Where are they ...
Along with another camp in al-Hasakah, it provided shelter to at least 15,000 refugees from Iraq. [4] Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent Iraq War , the camp was later reopened as one of three camps at the Iraqi–Syrian border , when an exodus of Palestinian refugees living in Iraq occurred due to persecution by the newly ...
The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group ...
Al-Waleed (Arabic: مخيم الوليد) is a makeshift Palestinian refugee camp in Iraq, near the border with Syria and the al-Tanf Crossing, and not far from the border with Jordan. It was set up in 2006 by Iraqi-Palestinian and Iraqi refugees stranded at the Iraqi–Syrian border.
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