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46,000 Iraqis Have Left Syria
An Iraqi woman hugs a relative after returning last month from Syria, where most of Iraq's 1.5 million to 2 million refugees have settled.
(By Wathiq Khuzaie -- Getty Images)
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"We obviously do not have that kind of capability on the ground here," he said. "I think this is just going to remain a very, very tough issue for some time and, again, is one that Iraqis, as the security situation continues to improve, are going to have to come to grips with more and more."
Sultan, the displacement and migration minister, said his agency has budgeted supplies for internally displaced people -- including 1 million shoes, 300,000 blankets and 140,000 mattresses -- but none for refugees from Syria. He hoped parliament would approve a budget including new funding in the next two months.
In other developments in Iraq, a one-day vehicle ban was imposed on several cities in volatile Diyala province following several recent suicide attacks.
Lt. Gen. Abdul Kareem al-Rubaie, the military commander in Diyala, said the curfew was imposed in the provincial capital of Baqubah and the towns of Khalis and Moqtadiya because of threats of violent attacks, the influx of pilgrims returning from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and several large demonstrations protesting detentions of Sunnis accused of killing civilians.
Iraqi troops also arrested the commander of the Mahdi Army militia for the southern province of Qadisiyah, an Iraqi military official said. The official said the commander, Kefah al-Qreeti, was responsible for kidnapping and killing Iraqi military officials.
Correspondent Joshua Partlow and special correspondents K.I. Ibrahim and Zaid Sabah in Baghdad, special correspondent Saad Sarhan in Najaf and other Washington Post staff in Iraq contributed to this report.
