The mass abduction of Yezidi women and children is here conveyed with extraordinary intensity in the first-hand reporting of a young journalist who has been based in Iraqi Kurdistan for the past four years, covering the war with ISIS. Sinjar is now free from ISIS but the Yezidi homeland is at the center of growing tensions, making a return home for those who fled almost impossible. The headlines have moved on, but thousands of Yezidi women and children remain in captivity. More than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged on Sinjar Mountain. That summer, ISIS massacred Yezidi men and enslaved women and children. ISIS's genocidal attack on the Yezidi population in northern Iraq in 2014 brought the world's attention to the small faith that numbers less than one million worldwide.
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