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In August 2014, ISIS swept into Sinjar, a town in northern Iraq and home to many of the country’s Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking ethnic and religious minority long subjected to persecution. Regarding the Yazidis as infidels, ISIS killed thousands and enslaved thousands of women and girls, in what is now widely recognised as genocide.

The short documentary Into the Fire follows Hana Khider, a Yazidi woman who heads........

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