A Yazidi woman walks through the Khanke camp in northern Iraq in February. (Emily Garthwaite/INSTITUTE for NPR) DOHUK, Iraq — With rows of white tents filling a windswept hillside, the Khanke camp in ...

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DOHUK, Iraq — With rows of white tents filling a windswept hillside, the Khanke camp in northern Iraq shelters about 14,000 men, women and children from the Yazidi religious minority. They have been ...