Displacement in Iraq Reaches Nearly 3.2 Million
11/09/2015. The IOM Iraq Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) published this week, identified 3,182,736 internally displaced Iraqis (530,456 families) from January 2014 through 27 August 2015.
Since 1 April 2015 over half a million individuals were displaced from Anbar governorate following the Ramadi crisis. Of these, over 225,000 were displaced within the governorate.
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