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Mosul offensive against ISIL pushing Iraq’s civilians into war-ravaged Syria – UN rights wing

Mosul offensive against ISIL pushing Iraq’s civilians into war-ravaged Syria – UN rights wing

Nov 12, 2016, at 01:52 pm

New York, Nov 12 (Just Earth News): Amid the intensification of the military offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) in Iraq’s Mosul city and the resulting displacement of civilians, the United Nations human rights wing said on Friday that it has received reports that Iraqi civilians are also fleeing into Syria, which itself is reeling under a five-year long conflict that has displaced millions of Syrians and left hundreds of thousands trapped in besieged cities.