(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 90 Iraqi refugee families have returned home back on Sunday, leaving the Kurdish-held Hawl camp in northeastern Hasaka province, local activists said.
The seventh batch of the Iraqi displaced will settle south of the city of Mosul in Nineveh province.
The powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) said that 89 families (344 people) were handed over to the Iraqi government through the Faw border crossing.
In September, 184 families, including 721 people, left the Hawl camp to Iraq.
Thousands of Iraqis fled violence in Mosul after the Islamic State invaded the most populous city in 2014 when at least 3.3 million people had been forced out of their homes, in a country of about 34 million people.
Mosul was liberated in 2017 after major offensive by the Iraqi forces and Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces.
Zaman Al Wasl
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