Profile in Courage
Its members have been massacred on several occasions, but ‘The Family of the Tiger’ fights on.
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RANSOM OR REFUND?
Thousands of Yazidi women have been enslaved by ISIS. Does paying their captors for their freedom fund the terrorist organization?
Fighting Females
A year ago, the U.S. went back to Iraq to defend the Yazidis. Now the youngest of them, coached by a Marxist terrorist organization, are training to fight.
RIP?
Many thousands of Christians have fled Iraq, but some are brought back when they die so their community’s ties to the place and its history are not lost forever.
Deadly Frenemies
In a dusty town near the Iranian border, the terror group was defeated, but the victors are at each other’s throats.
Fired Up
The so-called Islamic State wanted to ruin the Kurdish holiday of Newroz, but all it did with gruesome threats was harden Kurdish determination.
Toy Soldiers
They went to Iraq and Syria to battle the beheaders. But when they got there, they were treated like prisoners—unless reporters were around.
Kurdish Hit
Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers are scooping up Bakhtiar Sadradin Aziz’s Franken-guns—bits and pieces of old weapons welded together and filed down for a more stylish (and deadly) weapon.