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The Middle East has never been a stranger to strife but few armed conflicts in contemporary history if any have amassed as much destruction and death as the Syrian civil war With millions of Syrians forced to become refugees abroad almost half a million civilian casualties and massive infrastructure damage including all 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Syria the war waged by Syrian President Bashar al Assad against rebel forces and other belligerents has proved to be the bane of Syria and its neighboring nations The Republic of Iraq is one of them sharing a 600 kilometer long border with Syria to the west The burden the Syrian civil war has placed on Iraqi shoulders has proved to be rather onerous including almost 250 000 Syrian refugees in Iraqi territory 1 and spillover conflicts with Daesh and other terrorist groups The Republic of Iraq is not only facing overcrowded refugee camps by Syrian citizens but it is also facing the Internally Displaced Persons IDPs crisis because of the war and this represented that by 2016 3 035 000 people were forced to leave their homes to avoid the effects of the armed conflict but have not crossed an international border Knowing the circumstances that our citizens faced in 2003 when they were compelled to leave our Republic because of the United States invasion that disturbed the public order of our nation in 2008 the Ministry of Displacement Migration of Iraq wrote a National Policy on Displacement to describe the situation they suffered and its consequences while establishing the rights of the IDPs returnees and refugees allowing us to be more organized on how to face the current displacement situation and refugees influx
