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Displaced by War, Iraqi Sunni Teenagers Live Life of Despair

The war against Islamic State extremists has displaced millions of Iraqis. More than 1 million have escaped to Kurdistan, where they live scattered in an assortment of rented rooms, churches and camps. VOA's Sharon Behn talked to some Sunni teens who survived IS, only to find themselves a year later trapped in an area where they don't speak the language, cannot find jobs and have little or no access to schools.

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