Iraq Christians struggle on 20 years after US-led invasion
Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during clashes with the militant Islamic State in the city of Ramadi June 19, 2014. Many of those who survived the Islamic State’s brutality are still displaced, living in and outside camps across Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. Photo: OSV
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Dale Gavlak Some 20 years after the US-led invasion of Iraq started and six years after Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State, whose attacks started in 2014, the country’s religious minorities are still trying to surmount challenges. According to the UN International Office for Migration (IOM), more than 200,000 Yazidis who survived the Islamic…