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Field diary: Two children of Kawergosk refugee camp, Iraqi Kurdistan

ERBIL, Iraq, 20 September 2013 – The story of Erbil is a long one. Urban life is believed to have begun here some 7,000 years ago, which puts it among the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth.

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