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Iraq: Tackling multi-layered humanitarian crisis

At the border

Hundreds of Syrian families continue arrive every day at the Ibrahim Khalil checkpoint, on the Turkey-Iraq border, fleeing fighting around their homes in Kobane and neighbouring areas in southern Syria. Since mid-September, more than 10 000 Syrian refugees have sought sanctuary in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KR-I).

 

They join more than 214 000 registered Syrian refugees, mostly in northern Iraq.

 

Photo credit: EU/ECHO/Caroline Gluck

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Uploaded on October 30, 2014
Taken on October 22, 2014