A year on, Yazidis so close yet so far from Iraq hub
Sinjar, Iraq (AFP) Aug 31, 2015 - Jihadists occupying the Iraqi town of Sinjar are so close that Kurdish fighters can watch them without binoculars and battles are often fought with hand grenades. Yet eight months after Kurdish forces retook Mount Sinjar from the Islamic State group, the recapture of the nearby town - the ancestral hub of the Yazidi minority, which has been brutally targeted by IS - remains a distant prosp ... more
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