Iraqi refugees 'returning home'
The US military says attacks have fallen 55 per cent since extra
troops were deployed in June [AFP]
About 1,600 Iraqis who fled the violence in their country are
returning home every day, according to Abdul Samad Sultan, the
country's displacement and migration minister.

The Iraqi government has suggested some of the estimated four million
people displaced are heading back because of an improvement in the
security situation in recent months.

However, international aid agencies said the number of people being
displaced in Iraq still exceeds the number of returnees.

And harsher visa requirements imposed by Syria have also made it more
difficult for the more than one million Iraqis who fled there to stay.

Brigadier-General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, interior minister spokesman,
said most refugees were returning from Syria.

Syria has the highest number of Iraqi refugees in the region and says
their influx has strained its education, health and housing systems,
pushing the government to tighten visa requirements and to call for
international assistance.

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