Complex sentence: Halfway through the school year, Ali's family moves to the more peaceful Kurdish region in Northern Iraq but after living there for several months, Ali states that he is homesick and misses the action and noise of Baghdad.
Split into simpler sentences: Halfway through the year, Ali's family moves to the more peaceful Kurdish region in Northern Iraq. However, after living there several months, Ali states that he is homesick and misses the action and noise of Baghdad.