“I didn’t know I am Yazidi,” said an 8-year-old member of the minority sect who was held captive by Islamic State for four years before escaping.
HASAKAH, Syria—The boy looked like all the other ragged children emerging from the last scrap of territory controlled by Islamic State. But unlike them, eight-year-old Maher is a Yazidi—kidnapped more than four years ago by the militants during a genocidal campaign against his community.
He’s one of several dozen members of the Yazidi minority to surface among tens of thousands of people escaping the battlefield in eastern Syria as U.S.-backed forces try to dislodge the militants from the remnants of their caliphate. In some...
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