13 displacements (destroyed housing), 31 August - 31 August, According to local media, around 13 people were displaced in Kirkuk, Iraq on 31 August when their houses were destroyed by ISIL.Subsequently, in Dogshman village in the Rashad sub-district of southern Kirkuk province, around 13 people were displaced on 31 August when ISIL destroyed at least two houses by burning. “ISIS attacks Kirkuk village, killing livestock,” Rudaw (31 August 2021), https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/31082021; According to OCHA, more than 65 people were evicted from their homes in Mosul, Iraq in August. OCHA, “Humanitarian Bulletin,” 13 September 2021, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/august_2021_humanitarian_bulletin.pdf; According to the Ministry of Migration and Displacement of Iraq, around 1,400 IDPs were left homeless after a fire broke out at Sharya IDP camp on 4 June 2021 in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq. Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim, “Fire Burns through Yazidi camp seven years after ISIS genocide,” The Washington Post (5 June 2021), https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iraq-yazidis-camp-fire/2021/06/04/8b3db6f0-c546-11eb-89a4-b7ae22aa193e_story.html. According to local media and residents, more than 46 people were displaced over the course of the summer in Zakho, Iraq due to conflict and violence. Yousif Musa, “More than $1 million in damages from clashes for Zakho villages, resorts,” Rudaw (10 September 2021), https://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/10092021.

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