Iraqis flee violence to Kurdish areas
Comparative safety of semi-autonomous region draws thousands trying to escape from the violence in the country’s north.
Published On 18 Jun 2014
Thousands of Iraqis have fled the violence in the country’s north to the oil-rich governorate of Kirkuk. Some 300,000 Iraqis have sought shelter in Iraq’s comparatively peaceful Kurdistan region over the past week as Sunni fighters swept through towns in a lightning offensive.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Source: Al Jazeera