Iraq's Kurdish region hosts Syrian refugees

Al Jazeera English 2013-05-07

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The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria continues to rise. Iraq's central government has closed its borders to most refugees but the Kurdish region has welcomed 90 percent of those seeking shelter in the country - almost all of them Syrian Kurds. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports, that living in Iraq has rekindled the refugees' nationalist spirit.

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