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Yazidis returned to Iraq, thought to be released IS captives - witnesses

by Reuters
Friday, 1 March 2019 14:09 GMT

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 10, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said

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SINUNI, Iraq, March 1 (Reuters) - A group of Yazidi women and children returned to Iraq from Syria on Friday, several witnesses in the northern Iraqi town of Sinuni told Reuters.

The group includes three women and 18 children, thought to have been held in Islamic State captivity in Syria. They were greeted by residents of Sinuni, a Yazidi town north of Sinjar mountain.

(Reporting by Reuters pictures; writing by Raya Jalabi; editing by Andrew Heavens)

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