180,000 people flee from Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar province

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With over 2,000,000 refugees from Syria and tens of thousands of refugees from Iraq, you have to wonder where all these people will eventually be settled. Many will never return to their home countries.

180,000 people flee from Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar province
Tuesday, 14 October 2014 - 9:45am IST | Place: Baghdad | Agency: Reuters

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Fighting in Iraq's western Anbar provincehas forced up to 180,000 people to flee since the city of Hit fell to Islamic State earlier this month, the United Nations said on Monday.

Islamic State fighters extended that advance by overrunning a military base that the Iraqi army had abandoned 8 km (5 miles) west of Hit earlier on Monday, according to an army officer and members of a government-backed Sunni militia.

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