Internally displaced Iraqi Saadiya Ahmed Hussein (right) and her family talk with UNHCR boss Filippo Grandi in the shelter they have made into a home. Al-Khadra camp opened in March 2015 on the outskirts of Baghdad and hosts around 120 families who fled Ramadi and Falluja. With a military operation to retake Mosul beginning in October 2016, 11 new camps are being built to accommodate some of the anticipated 1 million people likely to be displaced. ; Saadiya Ahmed Hussein lost her home and her arm during the March 2014 shelling of Falluja. After a month in hospital, she was reunited with her 70-year-old husband, and five children. The family fled Falluja and, like 3 million other Iraqis, became internally displaced persons. Travelling in a convoy with nine other families they ended up in Rawa, on the outskirts of Falluja where they remained for three years. In July 2016 she arrived in Al-Khadra camp where her children returned to school. “We faced many difficulties to leave," says Saadiya. "My husband is old and tires easily. People helped us. We knew it was very risky. If you were caught, you could be killed."

Internally displaced Iraqi Shaima Jassim makes a dress on a sewing machine inside the shelter where she lives with her three children. Shaima fled Fallujah in 2014 and came to Al-Khadra camp, Baghdad. Since her husband died she supports her family by making dresses to sell to women and girls in the camp. ; As a military operation to retake Mosul begins in mid-October 2016, UNHCR's High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visits Iraq on a four-day trip to help staff on the ground plan for a humanitarian emergency situation. Eleven new camps are being built by UN agencies in Iraq to accommodate some of the anticipated 1 million people who could be displaced. Around 3.3 million Iraqis, ten per cent of the country's population, have fled their homes since March 2014.

Internally displaced Iraqi Wissam Khadim delivers gas canister on his three-wheel vehicle with his sons. The 38-year-old, was a taxi driver in Falluja before being displaced with his family in March 2014. In Al-Khadra camp, Wissam works 6 days a week buying gas from outside the camp and selling it inside. This earns him 10,000 Iraqi dinar a day (around $10) which helps him provide for his family. He set up his business with funding and resources from UNHCR. ; As a military operation to retake Mosul begins in mid-October 2016, UNHCR's High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visits Iraq on a four-day trip to help staff on the ground plan for a humanitarian emergency situation. Eleven new camps are being built by UN agencies in Iraq to accommodate some of the anticipated 1 million people who could be displaced. Around 3.3 million Iraqis, ten per cent of the country's population, have fled their homes since March 2014.