Since 2011, more than 12,000 people have been killed or injured by land mines in Syria, including more than 3,000 children.
In support of US Special Operations Forces, Spirit of America funded a local Syrian organization finding and removing land mines planted by ISIS in northeast Syria.
Despite losing territorial control, ISIS has maintained a level of violent insurgency in Syria, forcing over 6.5 million people to flee their homes and seek refuge in ill-equipped camps.
In 2014, ISIS launched a major offensive attempt to seize the oil fields around Kirkuk in Northern Iraq.
Starting in the Summer of 2014, ISIS attacks in Iraq and Syria forced more than one million people to escape into Iraqi Kurdistan.
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