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UN Migration Agency Reports Surge in Displacement from Mosul as Fighting Intensifies

A baby displaced by the conflict in Mosul, shelter at the Qayara emergency site, in Ninewa governorate, Iraq. Photo: IOM/Hala Jaber

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–28 February 2017 – The United Nations migration agency today reported thousands of new arrivals at Iraqi sites for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing Mosul’s western sector where fighting is taking place between the Government forces and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) terrorists.

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