In days to come, the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all…Many nations will come streaming to it…. “Let us go up the hill of the Lord…He will teach us what He wants us to do…” (Isaiah 2:2-3)

Throughout mountain villages in northern Iraq, villagers flee from ongoing bombing and shelling by Turkish forces. Turkey’s battles with the Kurdish Worker Party (PKK) continue to wreak havoc on the villagers caught in the crossfire. They stream south to internally displaced people’s (IDP) camps; when there is a lull in they bombing, they stream back up the mountain to their homes. The assistant mayor of the region has said the villagers have become psychologically crippled.