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Iraq’s Yazidis mark New Year still haunted by Daesh horrors

Iraq’s Yazidis mark New Year still haunted by Daesh horrors

Hundreds came to Lalish to mark the Yazidi New Year — which to the faithful commemorates the creation of the universe
When Daesh invaded Iraq in August 2014, one of their targets was Sinjar, the Yazidis’ historic home on the Nineveh Plain

By AFP · 19 April 2023

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