Iraq Kurds expel some suspected Islamic State supporters from villages
 

By Isabel Coles ERBIL (Reuters) - The four men helped each other clamber up the far side of a trench into the **-man's land between frontlines in **rthern Iraq, fearing what lay ahead but unable to turn back. * Moving forward under a pounding sun, they carefully navigated around landmines until reaching the border of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate hours later, according to an account of the journey related by one of the men, Abu Muhannad.They are among dozens - some Arabs in the area say hundreds - of mainly Arab Sunnis who have been banished from areas under Kurdish control in recent months as suspected Islamic State sympathizers, a measure some Arabs say is creating dangerous ethnic polarization in areas recaptured from the insurgents. "They (the Kurds) drove us to the frontline and said go to Daesh," Abu Muhannad said by telephone, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State, also k**wn in English as ISIS or ISIL.

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