Local City Council candidate Zakaria Ameen and Board of Education candidate Azad Barwari started their campaigns in their neighborhood.
Kurds are town’s largest minority group
Prosecutors say the couple enslaved and repeatedly raped 5-year-old and 12-year-old girls
Amineh Kakabaveh, a Swedish parliament member of Kurdish origin, is among people pursued by Turkish officials who say they will object to the Nordic country's application to join NATO until it stops supporting Kurdish 'terrorists'
'I am ready to confront this man in court. I will do whatever it takes to have justice, even if my follow-up of the issue takes 1,000 years'
Officials believe many of the women were kidnapped in 2014 by Islamic State and belong to the Yazidi religious minority sect
Thousands of Yazidi women and girls who were kidnapped by the Islamic State group and forced to become sex slaves continue to suffer the trauma of their captivity long after escaping the militants. Now living in refugee camps, many say they often do not get the help they desperately need. With Robert Raffaele narrating, VOA’s Dakhil Shammo reports.
Sarah Said Haydar, captured a year ago while fleeing Islamic State onslaught in northern Iraq, was so traumatized by militants, she sought to end her own life
Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria have been a key component in the international campaign against the Islamic State group. But their involvement in the coalition strategy and access to military aid have been limited. Some U.S. lawmakers want that to change. Marcus Harton narrates this account VOA Kurdish reporter Dakhil Shammo.
