Kurdistan's new exodus

By Isabel Coles ZAKHO, Iraq (Reuters) - Around 30 of the migrants who died in a truck in Austria in August were Iraqi Kurds, some of them from Zakho, an ancient city on the border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey. In the 1990s, Zakho was the center of a haven set up by British and American military forces to protect the Kurds from attack by then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. When Saddam's regime was toppled in 2003, Kurds flooded home hoping to build a new life – and possibly a new cou