Displaced Iraqis brace for onset of Kurdish winter
 

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/lH...16abfaceb2.jpgDisplaced Iraqis who escaped a jihadist-led onslaught **rth of Baghdad during the scorching summer are braced to face a**ther enemy: the onset of winter in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. At the newest camp in Khanke, a few kilometres (miles) from the Turkish border in Iraq's Dohuk province, lorries have been ferrying in equipment to house the displaced people with some degree of winter-proofing. Run by authorities from the three-province auto**mous Kurdish region of **rth Iraq with the help of the United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, Khanke aims to house 18,000 people, said the agency's Liena Veide.




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