SILOPI, Turkey— Fighters from the Islamic State were coming. Already, the militants had cut a bloody path through Syria and western Iraq; bragging about executing security forces and slaying civilians. Now they were advancing north, ransacking mosques and churches, and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing into the forbidding Sinjar Mountains
The Iraqi army had all but folded. The Kurdish militia known as the Peshmerga were running low on ammunition and morale. Washington had yet to act.
But one group — designated a terror organization by both the United States, the European Union and Turkey — were coming to the aid of the fleeing minority Yazidis. Today, many of those who survive credit the fighters with saving them from genocide. Read more…
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