Yazidis appoint new spiritual leader in Iraq - in pictures
The Yazidi community in Iraq has picked a new spiritual leader two months after the death of their top cleric./ At a ceremony in the temple of Lalish - the holiest site for the minority group - they formally named Ali Alyas as the new Baba Sheikh, their chief religious guide./ Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority, most of whom live in northern Iraq./ They faced harsh persecution at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group, who took over the region in 2014 and killed, enslaved and raped thousands of Yazidis./ severe mental and ...
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