LAYLAN, Iraq: No documents? No doctor. Without state-issued IDs, Iraqi mothers struggle to have children born under the now-defeated Islamic State (IS), group treated for conditions ranging from asthma to epilepsy.

“It’s unjust,” said Salima, a 36-year-old mother of four living in the Laylan 2 displacement camp in northern Iraq.

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