Kurdish forces, with the aid of massive U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, liberated Sinjar from Islamic State extremists, known in Arabic as Daesh, in recent days. Although many minority Yazidis celebrated the victory, their home city of Sinjar lay in almost complete ruins. About a thousand villagers in Ghabosyeh fled north to Kurdish held territory, to take refuge camps or onward as refugees to Turkey or Europe. (Getty)



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