Displaced by war, Kurdish families stuck at Syria-Iraq border point

By Ulf Laessing and Raya Jalabi SEMALKA, Syria/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Made homeless when Turkish shells slammed into his house in northern Syria, Kurdish day labourer Suleiman Mohamed and his family spent 10 days in desperate search of shelter nearby. Now all they want is to reach neighbouring Iraq. They are among at least 160,000 Syrian Kurds that the United Nations says fled their homes following the start of a Turkish assault on northeastern Syria.

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