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The Caliphate Is Crushed, But ISIS Infants—Innocent, Abandoned and Despised—Live On

ORPHANS OF THE STORM

Iraq’s Yazidi minority has forgiven its women for being enslaved and raped by fighters from the defunct Islamic State, but it hasn’t forgiven their children for being born.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

DUHOK, Iraqi Kurdistan—In no-man’s land between the Iraqi and Syrian borders, there’s a meeting point for Iraqi families freed from the so-called Islamic State.

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