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The road to the battlefront plunges straight down the steep face of Mount Sinjar, whipped by a fierce wind. It is littered with trucks and cars that couldn't get up that incline, abandoned by their owners months ago as they fled the rampage of Islamic State group extremists.

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The gunmen came to the all-girls' elementary school in the Iraqi city of Fallujah at midday with a special delivery: piles of long black robes with gloves and face veils, now required dress code for females in areas ruled by the Islamic State group.

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The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to Turkey.

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Islamic extremists shot scores of Yazidi men to death in Iraq, lining them up in small groups and opening fire with assault rifles before abducting their wives and children, according to an eyewitness, government officials and people who live in the area.

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Islamic extremists in Iraq killed 80 Yazidi men and abducted their wives and children, officials and eyewitnesses said yesterday, insisting the religious community is still at risk after a week of US and Iraqi airstrikes on the militants.

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned yesterday that a humanitarian disaster of massive scale was brewing in northern Iraq, as he promised action to help the afflicted.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday the YouTube video showing an alleged Filipina being stoned in Jordan is a hoax.

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MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - The death toll from brutal truck bombings targeting the ancient Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq rose to more than 200 on Wednesday, a local government official told AFP.

Mayor of Sinjar, a town in the northern province of Nineveh where four truck bombs exploded on Tuesday, voiced fears that the toll could rise further.

"More than 200 people were killed and an equal number of people are wounded," Dakhil Qassim Hassun said.

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Islamic extremists shot scores of Yazidi men to death in Iraq, lining them up in small groups and opening fire with assault rifles before abducting their wives and children, according to an eyewitness, government officials and people who live in the area.

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Islamic extremists in Iraq killed 80 Yazidi men and abducted their wives and children, officials and eyewitnesses said yesterday, insisting the religious community is still at risk after a week of US and Iraqi airstrikes on the militants.

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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday the YouTube video showing an alleged Filipina being stoned in Jordan is a hoax.

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MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - The death toll from brutal truck bombings targeting the ancient Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq rose to more than 200 on Wednesday, a local government official told AFP.

Mayor of Sinjar, a town in the northern province of Nineveh where four truck bombs exploded on Tuesday, voiced fears that the toll could rise further.

"More than 200 people were killed and an equal number of people are wounded," Dakhil Qassim Hassun said.

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