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Camp closures force Iraqi families back to shattered homes

by Samya Kullab
| December 16, 2020 12:07 AM

DEBAJA, Iraq (AP) — After living in a camp for three years, 70-year-old Merhi Hamed Abdullah returned to his village west of the city of Mosul to find it in ruins — his first glimpse of home since Iraq defeated the Islamic State group.

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