Hungry refugees flood Iraq

The United Nations says more than 15,000 Syrian Kurds — mostly women, children and the elderly — have poured into Iraq over the past few days, to escape deadly clashes between Kurdish fighters and jihadists and seeking a respite from privation. The sudden influx of Syrians across the border stands in marked contrast to the relatively small numbers of refugees taken in by Iraq in recent months compared to other neighboring countries and has forced the UN refugee agency to scramble aid to the region. Several thousand are being housed at the Quru Gusik camp just west of the Kurdish regional capital Arbil, although it is still under construction and lacks many basic services.

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