Iraqi Kurdistan: Arabs Displaced, Cordoned Off, Detained | Human Rights Watch:
Iraqi Kurdish forces have confined thousands of Arabs in “security zones” in areas of northern Iraq that they have captured since August 2014 from the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Kurdish forces for months barred Arabs displaced by fighting from returning to their homes in portions of Ninewa and Erbil provinces, while permitting Kurds to return to those areas and even to move into homes of Arabs who fled. Some restrictions were eased in January 2015, after Human Rights Watch communicated with the Kurdish regional government about the issue, but others remain.
vehicles pass as Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) fighters man a checkpoint north of Mount Sinjar,
Iraq on December 20, 2014.
