Surviving ISIS

The World

Many Yazidis, members of a Christian minority in Iraq, were enslaved by ISIS when the group swept through their homeland in Sinjar, in northern Iraq. Now that the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate has collapsed, some who survived the ordeal are talking about their experiences.  The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports on one Yazidi family who miraculously survived ISIS’s attempt to destroy them. 

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