[caption id="attachment_151879" align="alignright" width="207"] An Iraqi girl ,displaced by the violence of ISIL terrorists, looks at the camera as she stands in a shelter built for pilgrims but now housing internally displaced people (IDP) on January 5, 2015, in the city of Najaf.[/caption]

More than 1500 displaced Iraqi families have returned to their homes in a district of Diyala Province after the area was liberated and cleared of Takfiri militants by the Iraqi army.

“More than 1500 displaced families have returned to the secured areas in the district during the past week,”  said Zaid Ibrahim, the deputy mayor of al-Muqdadiyah in Diyala on Tuesday.

He further noted that the families returned to five villages, located in the northern part of the city.

“The high degree of coordination with the security forces has increased the rates of return to the area,” Ibrahim added.

The International Organization of Migration (IOM) said in January that 2,176,764 Iraqi people have been displaced internally since January 2014.

The Iraqi people were displaced after their cities were captured by the ISIL militants.

The ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014.

The terrorists have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against all Iraqi communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have managed to drive the terrorists out of some areas in Iraq.

By Press TV