Iraq’s Yazidis: who they are and why the US is bombing ISIS to save them

America’s air strikes in Iraq aren’t just about protecting Americans in the Kurdish capital of Erbil. “In recent days, Yazidi women, men, and children from the area of Sinjar have fled for their lives,” President Obama said when announcing the airstrikes. “And thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — are now hiding high up on [a] mountain, with little but the clothes on their backs.”

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