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The Kurdistan Parliament on Thursday announced it is discussing designating Aug. 3 — the anniversary of the Islamic State’s attack on the city of Sinjar (Shingal) — as Yezidi (Ezidi) Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate the tragic event.

"They were seeking refuge in caves. The [Turkish] army poisoned them like rats. So that’s how they slew the Dersim Kurds. It was a bloody campaign."

An image in a government briefing book helped a State Department official see “the forest for the trees” in the West Bank—and then was shared with the President.