Published time: June 23, 2014 14:46
Displaced Iraqi children sit
inside a UNHCR tent at a temporary camp set up to shelter people fleeing
violence in northern Iraq on June 17, 2014 in Aski kalak, 40 kms west of the
Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil (AFP Photo / Karim Sahib)
Despite ISIS militants tightening their grip on Iraq,
seizing more and more cities, people in Kurdistan believe they will survive the
crisis, even with a shortage of fuel. But the refugees think that the situation
in the country will become worse.
The city of Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s
semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, is located only 60 kilometers from the
frontline of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, or ISIL), but it still
remains relatively untouched by the militants. Businesses are still prospering
in the region, partially due to high inflow of refugees who come from all parts
of the crisis-torn country.
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