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Sinjar : 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State

How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene mi...

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Main Author: Shand, Susan, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, CT : LP, [2018]
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Yezidis > Crimes against > Iraq > History > 21st century.
Yezidi women > Crimes against > Iraq > History > 21st century.
Genocide > Iraq > History > 21st century.
United States > Military relations > Iraq.
Iraq > Military relations > United States.
Nonfiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cries for help
  • Before the invasion
  • Invasion : Sunday August 3
  • First reactions : Monday August 4
  • Appeals : Tuesday August 5
  • The red line : Wednesday August 6, Thursday August 7
  • America responds : Friday August 8, Saturday August 9
  • The prime minister : Sunday August 10, Monday August 11, Tuesday August 12
  • The mountain is empty : Wednesday August 13, Thursday August 14
  • Kocho : Friday Aug. 15.

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