The search for the missing Yazidi

The search for the missing Yazidi

Amal Hussein, 40, is just beginning to know her 10-year-old daughter Khunaf.  Hussein’s fingers gently trace her daughter’s small, unfamiliar face, a face she hadn’t seen since Khunaf was three months old. Their separation occurred 11 years ago when ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as Daesh) invaded the predominantly Yazidi district of Sinjar in northern Iraq on August 3, 2014. The Yazidi, a monotheistic ethnoreligious minority,…