When ISIS came to butcher the Yazidis of Iraq, they simply went next door. By Rania Khalek / AlterNet This is the third in a series of articles on the plight of Yazidis in Iraq. Read the first and second installments. On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, orchestrated a pre-planned and systematic campaign of genocide against the Yazidis in northwest Iraq, driving hundreds of thousands of them from their ancestral homeland in Sinjar. Yazidis are … Continue reading Genocide in Iraq: When local Sunni became ISIS and slaughtered their Yazidi neighbors