Eli Lake, Columnist

Crisis Looms for Refugees Taken In by Iraq's Kurds

The Kurdistan Regional Government is running out of money to provide for displaced people.

September 30, 2015 at 10:00 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Displaced Iraqis at a camp near Erbil.
Photographer: SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

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When the Islamic State in 2014 began its rampage throughout Iraq, many of the displaced people found a safe haven in the Kurdistan provinces in the north. That safe haven is now in danger.

This week at the start of the U.N. General Assembly, the Kurdistan Regional Government (or KRG) publicly warned that it was running out of money to provide basic services to the nearly 1.8 million Iraqis and Syrians who have fled there.