Here is a group that hasn't bothered anybody, and look what they have to go through because of the ISIS maniacs. Imagine how these Zahidis must be feeling now, wondering what happened to their relatives.
Iraq's Yazidis worry about relatives seized by Islamic State
Yazidi women wait in line for food at a camp for the displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan's Dahuk province. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP/Getty Images)
By SHASHANK BENGALIcontact the reporter
For Iraq's displaced Yazidis, plight of missing relatives is source of endless torment
Islamic State militants in Iraq believed to be holding hundreds of Yazidis
For members of Yazidi family in Iraq, the road taken meant difference between life and death
As fighting raged between Islamist extremists and armed residents of the northern Iraqi town of Qahtaniya, Abdal Ali Aliyas had a split-second decision to make.
There were two roads leading to the countryside. Aliyas fled by the gravel road. His 18-year-old sister, Amsha, took the paved road.
The choice turned out to mean the difference between life and death, freedom and captivity.
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Iraq's Yazidis worry about relatives seized by Islamic State
Yazidi women wait in line for food at a camp for the displaced in Iraqi Kurdistan's Dahuk province. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP/Getty Images)
By SHASHANK BENGALIcontact the reporter
For Iraq's displaced Yazidis, plight of missing relatives is source of endless torment
Islamic State militants in Iraq believed to be holding hundreds of Yazidis
For members of Yazidi family in Iraq, the road taken meant difference between life and death
As fighting raged between Islamist extremists and armed residents of the northern Iraqi town of Qahtaniya, Abdal Ali Aliyas had a split-second decision to make.
There were two roads leading to the countryside. Aliyas fled by the gravel road. His 18-year-old sister, Amsha, took the paved road.
The choice turned out to mean the difference between life and death, freedom and captivity.
Continue reading at:
Iraq s Yazidis worry about relatives seized by Islamic State - LA Times