By Dale Gavlak

The global economic downturn and Iraqi government incentives have persuaded hundreds of refugees to return home, but they are still only a trickle among nearly 2 million Iraqis who fled abroad in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion. The United Nations' refugee agency and the Iraqi Embassy say returnees have been mostly those who couldn't afford to stay any longer in the Jordanian capital or in Damascus, Syria, where inflation has spiraled and legal employment is prohibited to Iraqis.

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