Another Assyrian community settled in Urmia after the local Kurds and Turkish army forced them to flee their homes.[14] Over ten thousand people died en route to Urmia.[14] After additional trouble in Urmia, the Assyrian community left and settled in Ba‘quba near Baghdad.[14] In the early 1930s some moved to Syria and lived near the Khabur river between Hassake and Ras el Ain.[14]