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After the ISIL proclaimed formation of a so-called state in northern Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shias found themselves compelled to seek refuge outside the region.Press TV has spoken to some of those who were expelled from the capital of the terrorists' Caliphate - Mosul - and its surrounding areas.


Shias in Iraq are of different ethnic roots.Arabs, Kurds, Shabakis and Turkmen are being hunted by the takfiri terrorists both for their ethnic descent as well as their religious beliefs.