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IS Conflict 'Has Displaced More Than 5m Iraqis'
More than five million Iraqis have been displaced since so-called Islamic State (IS) took over large swathes of territory in 2014, the UN says, quoted by BBC.
Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq, said 5.4 million civilians had fled their homes over the past three years.
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Islamic State group: Iraqi Army Claims Recapture of Hawija
Iraqi forces say they have recaptured Hawija, one of the last enclaves of so-called Islamic State (IS).
The area, where tens of thousands of civilians live, has been under the militant group's control since 2014.
The recapture leaves just one area of Iraq under the militant group's control; a stretch of land along the western border with Syria.
U.N. Says 78,000 Civilians Could be Trapped in Iraq's Hawija
Up to 78,000 people could be trapped in Islamic State-held Hawija in northern Iraq, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as security forces push to recapture the town.
ISIL jihadists free 200 elderly Yazidis in north Iraq
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group released more than 200 mostly elderly members of northern Iraq's Yazidi minority Jan. 17 who had been held for months, officials and activists said.