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Michael Totten

1 article 2014

Michael Totten is a journalist, author, and foreign affairs analyst known for his extensive reporting from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans. He has written for numerous publications and is the author of several books on conflict zones and international politics. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with reporting on the Yezidi people amid the 2014 ISIS crisis in Iraq.

Who Are the Yezidis?

August 11, 2014 · Iraq, culture, War

Islamic State terrorists, formerly known as ISIS, have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yezidi religious minority in and around the city of Sinjar and taken hundreds of women as slaves. Some of the victims were buried alive. Their only crime: not being Muslims.