Massacred by Islamic State, Yazidis now face Turkish airstrikes

Data analysis shows that civilians are often the victims.

Thousands of Yazidis were rescued by Kurdish forces as they tried to escape from Islamic State in 2014. (Photo by Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Seven years after genocide at the hands of Islamic State (IS), approximately 200,000 Yazidis remain trapped in Iraqi Kurdistan’s sprawling refugee camps.

The terror group has long been vanquished from the Sinjar Mountains, the Yazidis’ ancestral homeland, but few feel safe returning. Drones and jets have returned to the skies above Sinjar, bombing not IS but the Yazidi militia that defeated it.