As many have pointed out, there has been a lot of focus on ISIS this week and not a lot on its (many) victims. I went to Sheikhan in Iraq and spoke to Yazidi families still missing relatives who say they are now losing hope they’ll ever be found

As many have pointed out, there has been a lot of focus on ISIS this week and not a lot on its (many) victims. I went to Sheikhan in Iraq and spoke to Yazidi families still missing relatives who say they are now losing hope they’ll ever be found

Khudida Haji has followed news of the battle for Islamic State’s final stronghold more closely than most. For four and a half years he has been hoping for information on family members captured by the jihadists. Out of the five that went missing the day Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (Isil) overran the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar, northern Iraq, in 2014, only one returned. He had clung to the outside chance that his wife, two daughters and youngest son were still alive and being held in the group’s ever-dwindling territory.