January, 17, 2017. Laila, 37, a Yazidi woman from Sinjar, Iraq with her children in Sharia refugee camp in Dohok, Iraq. Her entire family was abducted by ISIS and taken to Syria. She was able to find a gun and escape her captors with her children, but her husband was left behind. She presumes he is dead. She said her family was approved for refugee resettlement in North Dakota, USA where a large Yazid refugee community resides. The United Nations (UN) has declared that the Islamic State of Iraq committed mass genocide on the Yazidi people. Accoring to the UN more than 5000 Yazidi lost their lives during the genocide.
