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More than 300.000 people fled Mosul and have arrived in Iraq's Kurdistan region seeking refuge. Many have no money and nowhere to go. While some are staying with relatives, others have moved into hotels where they are rapidly exhausting what funds they have.
For those with no other options, transit camps offer shelter. Like the one at Khazair checkpoint, midway between the northern Iraq cities Mosul and Erbil, which hosts close to 1500 displaced Iraqis.