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Iraq's 2 million IDPs struggling

The Islamic State’s offensive this year, and the subsequent conflict that has followed, has spawned nearly 2 million internally displaced persons, many of whom live in run-down, squalid refugee camps and are desperate for aid.

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Two Yazidi boys stand outside a tent at the Hanke refugee camp in Duhok, Kurdistan, Nov. 22, 2014. — Sarah El-Rashidi

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