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Zahra from the Yazidi religious minority, shows the identity card of her daughter Bishara 18 years old captured by Islamic State militants (ISIS). trying to flee Sinjar also known as Shingal a town in Iraq's Nineveh province near Mount Shengal, subjected to rape and to assist women and girls who were sexually abused particularly brutal treatment by the militants Islamic State fighters (ISIS) captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar region, near the Syrian border. Khanki refugee camp called filled with hundreds of Yazidis, a religious minority group. The settlement, known as Khanki, is located in a province just north of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were run out of their homes. the Iraq's Yazidi religious minority as they hide from the Islamists who call them "devil worshippers" and will kill them if they try to return to their homes. The Yazidis are a small community that follows a 4,000-year-old faith and have been repeatedly targeted by jihadists who call them "devil-worshipers" because of their unique beliefs and practices, Khanke-Kurdistan Region,Iraq 11/11/2014
Lieu : DOHUK, IRAQ
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