Migrants gather at the airport for their departure to Iraq, Minsk, Belarus November 18, 2021. Andrey Pokumeyko/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS
BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) -Hundreds of Iraqis who had camped for weeks at Belarus' borders with the EU seeking to cross into the bloc flew back home on Thursday.
Around 430 would-be migrants, mostly Iraqi Kurds, touched down in Erbil in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdistan region on a flight from Minsk. The plane took off again for Baghdad where it will deposit other returnees, the foreign ministry said.
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