Iraqis fleeing conflict flood over borders
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Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.
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Iraq closed its borders with Iran and Syria as U.S. and Iraqi troops tightened their grip on Baghdad on Thursday, setting up more checkpoints that stopped and searched even official convoys for weapons.
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Ten thousand Congolese refugees have fled to neighboring Uganda to escape growing clashes in eastern Congo between the army and renegade troops, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Sunni insurgents have been streaming out of Baghdad to escape the security crackdown, carrying the fight to neighboring Diyala province where direct fire attacks on Americans have nearly doubled since last summer, U.S. soldiers say.
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Iraq's top doctors are under threat and are fleeing the country, leaving hospitals in the hands of medical students or junior physicians, an Iraqi lawmaker said Wednesday.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   sectarian violence and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   attacks that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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Up to 12,000 "terrified" refugees from Sudan's Darfur region have fled across the border to neighboring Chad after the latest air strikes by the Sudanese military and thousands more may be on their way, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.
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Thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled last year's violence are returning, but many more are staying away. Here are four reasons why it's too early to proclaim the end of the civil war
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More than 4 million Iraqis have now been displaced by violence in the country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, warning that the figure will continue to rise.
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Thousands of people fled from Gaza into Egypt early Wednesday after hearing explosions that reportedly blew holes in a border wall.
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SULAIMANIYA, Iraq  - Fed up with car bombs and   death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of   Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, decided one day to pack   his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Local authorities began evacuating hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Iraqi officials Tuesday appealed to  neighboring countries to do more to stop the cross-border  activities of rebels whose relentless attacks have cast doubt  on whether Jan. 30 elections can be held on time.
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Iraqi delegation travels to Turkey amid reports of further clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkish troops.
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Some streets are bullet-riddled and abandoned danger zones â the boundaries between Sunni and Shiite areas.
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Iraq will seal its borders next week to prevent Shi'ite pilgrims flooding into the country, the government said Thursday, in the latest emergency measure intended to thwart insurgent violence.
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The number of Iraqis fleeing their homeland has declined in recent months, primarily because neighboring countries refuse to let them enter, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.