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Iraqi Kurdistan continues repatriation flights from Belarus

Thousands of migrants have gotten stuck at the Belarus-Poland border this winter, many of them Kurds from Iraq.
Kurdish migrants

Authorities from Baghdad and Erbil are continuing to repatriate migrants from Belarus. 

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in conjunction with the federal Iraqi government has returned 1,872 people from the eastern European country to Iraq on five repatriation flights, a KRG spokesman told Al-Monitor today. 

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