Baghdad-Kurdistan dispute shifts control over Yazidi genocide sites

Iraq has deployed its military to assert control over Mount Sinjar, the site of 40 mass graves from ISIS's genocide of the Yazidis who lived there.

Two photos of mass grave sites near Sinjar in 2015 of Yazidis who were mass murdered by ISIS in the 2014 genocide.

Two photos of mass grave sites near Sinjar in 2015 of Yazidis who were mass murdered by ISIS in the 2014 genocide.

(photo credit: SETH J. FRANTZMAN)

BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

OCTOBER 25, 2017 02:41

Updated: OCTOBER 25, 2017 11:47

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