Kurds from Syria eye KRG

Iraq’s Kurdish Region is becoming a favoured destination for an increasing number of Syrian Kurds deprived of nationality rights by authorities in Damascus.

More than one thousand Syrian Kurds now survive in dire conditions in Moqoble camp, a refugee settlement near the northern Iraq town of Dahuk. The refugees live without regular access to electricity, water and food in temporary tents provided by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Heating and cooking systems regularly cause fires that destroy the tents, which are their only protection from the intense summer heat, the winter snow and the blinding sandstorms that regularly afflict the camp. Muddy puddles surround the public toilets, but to date no cholera or typhus outbreaks have been reported.