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Iraqi refugees returning, but to what?

Tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees are estimated to have returned home. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria says hundreds of Iraqis are leaving every day. Kai Ryssdal talks with the agency's Sybella Wilkes in Damascus.

An Iraqi man holds his national flag before he and other refugees board buses to return to their homeland from a suburb of Damascus, Syria, this week. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)

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