A VOA Persian reporter traveled to the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar which was liberated last week from Islamic State forces. The militants overran the town last year, killing many of the male Yazidi residents and capturing women and girls, several thousand of whom are still enslaved by IS.
Sinjar, Iraq - Liberated from IS
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