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Kamo Zandinan says goodbye in the Mosul orphanage to a 10-year-old girl she believes is her daughter Sonya, taken from her by ISIS six years ago. The girl was rescued by police in March from an Arab family to whom she was not related. Zandinan is waiting
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A Yazidi Woman Searches For Her Lost Daughter, Kidnapped By ISIS 6 Years Ago

Nov 24, 2020
ISIS fighters tore Kamo Zandinan's 4-year-old daughter Sonya from her arms in 2014. Zandinan, now a refugee in Canada, recently returned to Iraq to meet the 10-year-old girl she believes is Sonya.
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Life After ISIS: The Struggle And Survival Of Yazidis
About 200,000 displaced Yazidis are in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many are waiting for help to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by ISIS in 2014.
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A Yazidi Survivor's Struggle Shows The Pain That Endures After ISIS Attack

Aug 08, 2020
Six years after ISIS committed genocide against Iraq's ancient religious minority group, the Yazidis are not getting the help they need to recover.
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Mazen (right), 13, and his brother Mezban in a camp for displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Mazen was freed recently, five years after being kidnapped by ISIS. He was found in Baghouz, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria. His brother was als
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Freed From ISIS, Few Yazidis Return To Suffering Families, Many Remain Missing

Mar 14, 2019
As ISIS loses territory and captives are rescued, broken Yazidi families hold out hope that their loved ones could still return.
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Kolecha, fig-and-nut-filled cookies, are on the feast table at every eid.
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For Yazidis In U.S., New Year Holiday Brings Taste Of Lamb And The Home They Fled

Apr 15, 2018
Like other spring holidays, Sere Sal is about fertility and new life. For Yazidi refugees who fled genocide at the hands of ISIS in Iraq, cooking the foods of the holiday is a way to re-create home.
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A camp for displaced Yazidis and other Iraqis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2015. Many of them have been unable to return home to Sinjar where ISIS killed and kidnapped thousands of members of the ancient religious minority.
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Yazidi Women Finally Go To School, Defying Former ISIS Rulers — And Their Own Parents

Feb 14, 2018
Some villagers considered it improper for girls to go to school. Now, after surviving the reign of ISIS, young Yazidi women in Iraq's Kurdistan region are getting an education.
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Abdullah Shrim, a former beekeeper, is credited with rescuing more than 300 Yazidi women and children held captive by ISIS.
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This Man Has Freed Hundreds Of Yazidis Captured By ISIS. Thousands Remain Missing

Jan 18, 2018
His phone rarely stops ringing. Most calls and messages are from other Yazidis in Iraq's Kurdistan region, asking for help to find their relatives. Others are from people threatening to kill him.
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An identification card lies in the dirt in Hardan in December.
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In A Somber Homecoming, Yazidis Grieve And Watch Over Their Dead

Feb 15, 2015
With the Islamic State pushed back, Iraq's Yazidis are returning to their villages — and to mass graves. Now, they guard the remains and are calling on the U.N. to document the killings.
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Wedat Kasim and her family stayed on Mount Sinjar through the long siege, from August until December.
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ISIS May Be Gone, But Life Has Yet To Return To Normal In Northern Iraq

Feb 15, 2015
The remote town of Snuny was recently liberated from ISIS. But aside from Kurdish and Yazidi militia men, very few people have ventured back. There are no services, and the ISIS threat is still real.
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The stone pillar at the center of this temple is where Yazidi worshippers bring their prayers. "During the siege, we came here every day and asked God to save us," says a fighter named Shamwa Edo.
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Outmanned And Outgunned, Fighters Defend Yazidi Shrine Against ISIS

Feb 13, 2015
Led by a celebrated Yazidi fighter, a small band of Kurdish peshmerga survived a months-long ISIS onslaught. Unlike others in Syria and Iraq, this sacred place still stands, nearly unscathed.
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