IRAQ-SYRIA-CONFLICT-REFUGEES

IRAQ-SYRIA-CONFLICT-REFUGEES

A Syrian-Kurdish women gather to get water at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of the of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 22, 2013. Faced with brutal violence and soaring prices, thousands of Syrian Kurds have poured into Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, seeking respite from privation and fighting between Kurdish fighters and jihadists. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED