A group of Yazidi women and children returned to Iraq from Syria on Friday after...
Yazidis survivors are greeted by residents of Sinuni following their release from Islamic State militants in Syria, in Sinuni, Iraq March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Fahed Khodor
The group includes three women and 18 children, witnesses told Reuters. They were greeted by residents of Sinuni, a Yazidi town north of Sinjar mountain. The women and children returned to Iraq more than four years after Islamic State militants launched an assault on Sinjar, the Yazidi heartland, on Aug. 3, 2014.
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