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A journey through Kurdish identity.

Magazine Kurdistan Erbil // DO NOT USE

Tens of thousands of families are stuck at checkpoints and refugee camps outside Iraq’s Kurdish region.

<p>Kurdish Peshmerga fighters walk through their base on the outskirts of Kirkuk. After the disintegration of the Iraqi military in Kirkuk, Peshmerga forces quickly seized the city they have long seen as theirs, and have refused to return it to it the Iraqi government.</p>

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Thirty thousand have fled Mosul after its seizure by rebels – many heading to the Kurdistan Region and refugee camps.

An elderly Iraqi woman is carried to the registration point of Khazer camp.

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