More than 800,000 people still displaced from Mosul
Out of nearly 1.05 million people who fled the fighting after the offensive against IS began last October, 825,000 remain displaced...
Iraqis who fled the fighting in Mosul have sought refuge at the Salamya camp for internally displaced people
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Out of nearly 1.05 million people who fled the fighting after the offensive against IS began last October, 825,000 remain displaced, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement.
The city on the Tigris river in northern Iraq had an estimated population of two million in 2014.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday declared Mosul fully retaken from the jihadist group after a Western-backed operation.
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But it is still near-impossible to access the Old City, where sweeping and demining operations continue.
IOM's chief of mission in Iraq, Thomas Lothar Weiss, said the new displacement figures underscored "the enormous crisis" in the area.
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