The number of refugees who returned to their homes in the city of Mosul has reached nearly 19,000 since security operations launched in October to retake Iraq’s second largest city from Islamic State militants, the Ministry of Migration and Displacement said on Tuesday according to IraqiNews.
Minister Mohamed Jassem al-Jaff said in a statement that 18,748 people returned home in different areas in the provinces of Mosul, Salahuddin and Kirkuk since the start of operations by Iraqi government forces, US-led coalition forces and popular mobilization militias the report continued.
The Ministry estimated that at least another 125,000 remained refugees from Mosul and Kirkuk, with the United nations estimating that at least 3.5 million people still remain as internally displaced across Iraq.
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