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How Syria’s Civil War in Spilling into Iraq
The fighting in Syria is driving thousands of refugees into camps in Northern Iraq. Carolyn S. Miles, president and chief executive officer for Save the Children tells Marco Werman what she observed on her visit to a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Two girls walk through the Domiz Refugee Camp in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq. (Photo: Sebastian Meyer/Getty Images)
The fighting in Syria is driving thousands of refugees into camps in Northern Iraq.
For a first hand account of the conditions there, Marco Werman speaks with Carolyn S. Miles, president and chief executive officer for Save the Children who has just returned from a visit to the refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.