More than 10,000 people have fled home in Iraq’s Anbar province in the past month ahead of operations against Islamic State there, a refugee charity said on Thursday.
Thousands of people have arrived in displacement camps near Ramadi since the beginning of October, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
“We didn’t make it to this place without seeing death with our own eyes a thousand times,” said Nafa Yacob, who left his own home to prevent his son from being recruited by ISIS.
Read more of Nafa Yacob’s story over at our sister site, The Globe Post.