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In this file photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping in early August, while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)
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Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, march in a demonstration at the Iraqi–Turkish border crossing in Zakho district of the Dahuk Governorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan province, on August 17, 2014. (Reuters/Youssef Boudlal)
Yazidi man: I walked out of an ISIS prison
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The last few weeks have seen a wave of murders and kidnappings of Yazidis by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents in Sinjar and the plains of Iraq’s Nineveh province, after the militants took control of the area at the start...Caption:
Yazidi refugees climb up a mountain-side as they flee from Iraq near Sirnak city, at the Turkish-Iraqi border, on August 17, 2014. (EPA/Ulas Yunus Tosun)
Yazidi mother speaks out from ISIS prison, daughters still missing
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—A young Yazidi woman who escaped captivity in an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) prison has described her ordeal in an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat. Layla, 23, was taken from the village of Qani near Mount Sinjar along with...Caption:
Displaced Yazidis find shelter in a half-finished building in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, on August 14, 2014. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)