The Yazidis have been able to return to their most holy place, but US jets hover overhead and IS militants lurk around the corner.
Middle East Eye: Hope and dismay as Iraq’s Yazidis mark their New Year

The Yazidis have been able to return to their most holy place, but US jets hover overhead and IS militants lurk around the corner.
Eventually the stench of death was too much even for ISIS. They covered it, mined it. The Iraqi government won’t touch it. […]
Mass graves and the survivors of massacres tell of the horrors inflicted on the Yazidi minority by ISIS.
The battle to retake Mosul from the so-called Islamic State is far from over. But the liberated zones feel very liberated indeed.
Kurdish militias keep ISIS at bay on the plains of northern Syria. They will become a key US ally in the fight […]