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Video: Iraqi Sunnis escape ISIS-held areas

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Still from video below.

Iraqi blogger Haidar Sumeri writes in Baiji District Recaptured by Iraq’s Forces in Rapid Offensive:

[…] upon hearing that Iraqi forces had recaptured Baiji, a mass exodus was triggered among Sunni tribes living north of the district, with hundreds upon hundreds of families escaping Da’ish-held areas and walking miles through the desert to seek refuge with Iraqi forces […]

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