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For Refugees, Defeat of IS Can’t Come Soon Enough

Without prompting, 10-year-old Maha rattled off her story as if she had told it several times before: Her father is in jail now, she said, after he was attacked by Islamic State fighters and later accused of joining them. “He was beaten so bad he couldn’t walk,” she said to anyone who would listen. Across this camp of more than 30,000 displaced people, families had stories of ruined relationships and lives, property destroyed and ghastly trauma. On Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister...

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