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Seeking Salvation: Muslim, Christian Iraqis Flee Islamic State Terror

2,291 views · Published 12 August 2014 · 2:47 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: MintPress News · 2014 · News & Politics

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The Khazir refugee camp was bursting at its seams early last week. Over 5,000 people had sought refuge there, with around 20 new families turned away every day. The crowded camp was hastily set up in the aftermath of the Islamic State’s sweeping victory over Mosul at the start of June and the sudden exodus of residents from the city fearing attacks by the militant extremists.

The Kurdistan Regional Government originally set up the camp in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The camp’s residents were put under Kurdish protection when thousands of people fled Mosul, seeking refuge in the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq.

But the camp lies abandoned now, after Islamic State militants advanced toward it on Thursday. Kurdish Peshmerga forces pulled back from the camp and the surrounding areas — which lie right outside the Kurdish government’s official borders, but within Kurdish disputed territories — and told the 5,000 residents of Khazir that Kurdish forces could no longer protect them. The refugees ran.

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