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Iraqi Christians forced to flee homes again after skirmishes between Kurds and central government
Perry Chiaramonte is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @perrych

Sources in Northern Iraq tell Fox News that nearly 2,000 Christian families have fled have been forced to evacuate the village of Teleskof, an Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac Christian town about 19 miles north of Mosul, on Tuesday after they were caught in the crossfire between Kurdish and Iraqi forces.

The first Iraqi Christians to return home after their village was freed from Islamic State control were forced to flee yet again Tuesday as Peshmerga forces stormed the area, a dark turn in what was broadly considered a “success story” of rebuilding in Northern Iraq.

Read more at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/24/iraqi-christians-forced-to-flee-homes-again-after-skirmishes-between-kurds-and-central-government.html