Families walked carrying their children. pushing wheelchairs with elderly parents. mile after mile into the hot. barren. Nineveh Plain. As ISIS continued to gain territory in July and August. the Christians fled further north. joining Yezidi and many other minorities trying to find safety in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. More than 1.7 million people have been displaced in Iraq this year. Many were Christians who fled the brutal Syrian civil war. now on the run again. Where will they be safe? Kurdistan. a region of 8.35 million people currently hosts nearly 750.000 refugees. The Kurdish Peshmerga militias are underfunded and underarmed. now that ISIS has captured U.S. heavy weaponry across Iraq. Yet they soldier on.
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