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Yazidi rebaptism ceremony in Iraq
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Photos: Yazidi women undergo a rebirth ceremony after ISIS enslavement
Children play with a kite at a shelter for displaced Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, northern Iraq.
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Years after US Iraq intervention, Yazidis are still seeking safety on a mountain
Mizgin, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, and her family are living with Rachel Miller's family for the year.
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For this Syrian Yazidi family and their Jewish hosts, Passover is a refugee story
Capt. Khatoon Khider, left, commander of the all-female Yazidi Sun Brigade, with her sister, Aliya, in a home near the city of Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Sept. 24.
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These Yazidi sisters took up arms to take revenge against ISIS
Nouhad was sold to an ISIS fighter when she was 16.
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This Yazidi woman escaped her ISIS captors in Mosul, but had to leave her infant son behind
Yazidi women released from ISIS captivity meet with Lalish's top spiritual leader, Baba Chawish, before being baptized back into the faith. They didn't want to show their faces.
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Yazidi society changes to try and rescue a generation of traumatized women
Dean Parker, a commercial housepainter and avid surfer from Florida, traveled to northern Iraq to fight with the Kurdish Peshmerga against ISIS.
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Meet the surfing grandfather from Florida who helped the Kurds fight ISIS
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds up a piece of clothing worn by an ISIS fighter on December 18, 2014. Kurdish peshmerga fighters have fought their way to Iraq's Sinjar mountain and freed hundreds of people trapped there by ISIS.
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Kurdish fighters finally end the months-long siege of Mount Sinjar
Foad, the brother of 15-year-old Nora, who left her home in Avignon for Syria nine months ago, shows a portrait he took last September, during an interview on October 6, 2014.
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The French are stunned that many of their own are winding up in ISIS training camps
The view across the Kawar Gosk refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Northern Iraq.
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Refugees who have escaped ISIS will soon have to battle winter weather
Displaced women from the minority Yezidi sect. ISIS is increasingly subjecting women to rape, as well as forced conversions and marriage.
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Some Yazidi women who have escaped ISIS barbarism aren’t hopeful for their futures
Syrian activist Qusai Zakarya stands as he is recognized by US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at UN headquarters in New York on May 22, 2014.
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‘In a dark place like Syria, just saying the truth is something more valuable than you can imagine’
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, walk in the Bajed Kadal refugee camp southwest of Dohuk province on August 15, 2014.
Belief
Yazidis in America are consumed by the fate of their relatives in Iraq
A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province August 13, 2014.
Global Scan
The US says the crisis for Yazidis in Iraq is over — but the UN disagrees
Global Scan
Are alleged ISIS passports a hoax?
Displaced demonstrators from the minority Yazidi sect gather during a protest against militants of ISIS in Irbil on August 4, 2014.
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A trench is all that stands between ISIS and some Iraqi refugees
Displaced people, who fled from the violence in the province of Nineveh, arrive at Sulaimaniya province August 8, 2014. The United States began to drop relief supplies to beleaguered Yazidi refugees fleeing Islamist militants in Iraq, but there was no imm
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The situation in Iraq is ‘a humanitarian crisis that could turn into a genocide’
Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect flee violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. Iraq's Prime Minister, Nuri al-Malik, ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni milit
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The battle against ISIS leads to odd alliances in Iraq
Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect flee violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. Iraq's Prime Minister, Nuri al-Malik, ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni milit
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The battle against ISIS leads to odd alliances in Iraq