7/01/2014

Over One Million Iraqis Displaced By Recent Chaos

Over a million Iraqis have fled their homes, says UN Anadolu Agency
UN officials said on Tuesday that the exodus could only be expected to increase as the conflicts continue.
Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Humanitarian Affairs Agency, told a press conference at the UN office in Geneva on Tuesday that 650,000 people had fled their homes in June alone.
Iraq saw a marked increase in sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims in June, with a coalition of armed opposition groups led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant having taking control of large swathes of the country's predominantly Sunni provinces.

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