More than half of the displaced in Iraq have returned to their homes

The number of people who have returned to their homes exceeds the number of those who have not been able to return, for the first time since terrorist militants occupied large areas of the country in 2014, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

 Iraqi men wait in a queue to receive flour that Iraqi troops found in a storeroom used by fighters of the so-called 'Islamic State'

Source: EPA/AHMED JALIL


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