Rudaw: A Yezidi woman’s journey to freedom, six years after abduction by Islamic State

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/03082020?utm_source=KwikPlayer&utm_medium=KwikShare&utm_campaign=KwikMotion ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Thousands of Yezidi women were captured by the Islamic State group (ISIS) when they overran the district of Shingal (Sinjar) in  Nineveh province on August 3, 2014. Rudaw’s Nasir Ali accompanied a Yezidi survivor as she retraced her captivity, visiting sites in Tel Afar and Mosul, before being welcomed back into the Yezidi faith in the spiritual heartland of Lalish in Duhok province....


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ALMASDAR NEWS: Turkish military captures strategic mountain in northern Iraq

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:15 P.M.) – The Turkish forces imposed full control over the Iraqi border mountain of Khamtir, which overlooks Turkey this week. The Khamtir Mountain is considered a strategic location that overlooks everything around it and it was captured by the Turkish forces after the intensification of airstrikes. The governor of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk announced that the Turkish forces launched an air and artillery...


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