ISIS continues their campaign to eliminate religious minorities. -Yahoo/AFP

Yazidi refugees. -Yahoo/AFP

ISIS continues the campaign to rid Iraq and Syria of religious minorities, now targeting members of the Yazidi minority. -Yahoo/AFP The UN fears that the Yazidi community, an ancient Zoroastrian offshoot religion,  may cease to exist after their last safe stronghold, Sinjar, has been captured by ISIS. The surviving Yazidi fled into the mountains where they face dehydration in addition to execution or enslavement by ISIS. 

My Comment:

I've been covering ISIS's campaign against religious minorities since I have started this blog. The Yazidi aren't the only community being destroyed in Iraq and Syria. Shia Muslims, Druse, Christians and Turks have also been targeted. This is a humanitarian disaster, the likes of which I have only seen a couple of times in my lifetime. The media has been reluctant to call this what it truly is, but I will. This is genocide, pure and simple. Nobody in the international community is going to do a thing to stop it either. It's up to the Iraqi and Kurdish government, and neither of them are up to the task. Sooner or later though, something will have to be done because this conflict and genocide will not stay contained to Iraq and Syria.