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Violent attacks reported against civilians fleeing ISIL-controlled areas of Iraq – UN human rights office

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Children in the Khanke Camp near Dohuk city, Iraq, which mainly houses Yazidis fleeing from the Islamic...

Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp turns three, challenges for the future of thousands living there

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View over Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan housing over 80,000 Syrian Refugees. This Wednesday marks three years since it was...

Top UN relief official in Yemen warns of conflict’s ‘catastrophic’ consequences; urges humanitarian access

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Abdallah and his six-year-old son stand in what used to be the entrance of their home, in Sana’a’s Bayt Mayad...

‘Paralyzing’ funding gap forces shutdown of 80 per cent of frontline health services in war-torn Iraq – UN

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Polio vaccination campaign in Iraq – August 2014.