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.
Months of battling ISIL in the Yazidi city has turned these fresh-face recruits into hardened warriors.
ISIS forced the Christians of the Nineveh plain around Mosul to flee. Now they are returning, but in the key town of […]
The plight of the Yazidis brought the United States back into the Iraq War when Obama moved to save them on Mount […]
As the elite Iraqi forces drive into the ISIS-controlled metropolis, making headlines, their flanks are increasingly exposed.