Iraq-based minority, exiled from their ancestral heartland, still reeling from the slaughter and enslavement of thousands by Islamic State terrorists

President appears unfamiliar with work of rape, persecution survivor in exchange at Oval Office this week

Those who survived captivity at hands of jihadists are accepted back into the community, but their children, born of IS fighters from forced marriages, are not

Investigators confirm Umm Sayyaf helped give overview of terror chief's hideouts; woman claims not to have played willing part in detention of US hostage Kayla Mueller at her home

US-backed fighters say they rescued some 300 Yazidi women and children during the fight to take the jihadists' last scrap of territory in eastern Syria