America’s Heartland Helps Iraq's Yazidis
- By Greg Flakus
Attacks by the self-styled "Islamic State," also known as ISIL, on the Yazidi religious minority in the mountains of northern Iraq have driven thousands of men, women and children into refugee camps -- where life remains uncertain and difficult. As VOA’s Greg Flakus reports from Katy, Texas, small Yazidi immigrant communities in the U.S. heartland are trying to provide relief to their brethren in Iraq and alert the world to their plight.