“More than 1,500 displaced families have returned to the secured areas in the district during the past week,” said Zaid Ibrahim, the deputy mayor of al-Muqdadiyah in Diyala on Tuesday.
He further noted that the families returned to five villages, located in the northern part of the city.
“The high degree of coordination with the security forces has increased the rates of return to the area,” Ibrahim added.
The International Organization of Migration (IOM) said in January that 2,176,764 Iraqi people have been displaced internally since January 2014, after their cities were captured by Daesh.
Daesh started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014.
The terrorists have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against all Iraqi communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have managed to drive the terrorists out of some areas in Iraq.
