Hundreds of Iraqi refugees in Syria find themselves strangers in a strange

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Hundreds of Iraqi refugees in Syria find themselves strangers in a strange land

ABANDONED: Many Iraqis who helped US forces in their home country fled to Syria to protect themselves and their families from being targeted as ``collaborators''

"The problem is growing, because Iraq continues to be a refugee-producing country."
Ajmal Khybari, an official with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Damascus
Nashwan Hassan Ahmed's belief in the US mission in Iraq never wavered.
Hired fresh out of Baghdad University, he served for 18 months as an interpreter for US forces in Mosul.

Former colleagues recall him working bravely and tirelessly, side by side with troops on dangerous nighttime hunts for insurgents, and in the offices and conference rooms where the details of reconstruction projects were hammered out.

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