DOHUK, Iraq (OSV News) ─ Twenty years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq started and six years after Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State, whose attacks started in 2014, the country’s religious minorities are still trying to surmount challenges.
According to the U.N. International Office for Migration (IOM), more than 200,000 Yazidis who survived the Islamic State’s brutality are still displaced, living in and outside camps across Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. The Islamic State abducted thousands of women and girls as sex slaves and massacred thousands of men.
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