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                     Iraqi Kurds Find Mass Grave of Yazidis

   by VOA News

   Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have found a mass grave of about 25
   members of the Yazidi minority believed killed by Islamic State
   militants as they swept through northwest Iraq in recent months.

   Officials said Peshmerga Kurdish forces found the gravesite Sunday,
   with the bodies of men, women and children.

   Islamic State insurgents are believed to have killed hundreds of the
   Yazidi ethnic minority, and buried alive some of their victims. About
   300 women have been kidnapped as slaves.

   Jordanian pilot

   Meanwhile, the fate of the Jordanian fighter pilot being held by the
   Islamic State remains uncertain.

   ''Jordan's King Abdullah II said Sunday his country is doing everything
   it can to rescue Muath al-Kaseasbeh, whom he described as a "hero
   pilot."

   Amman renewed its pledge to release an Iraqi insurgent on death row in
   Jordan, Sajida al-Rishawi, if given proof that the pilot is still
   alive. The effort came in the aftermath of the jihadists' beheading of
   a Japanese journalist.

   Rinko Jogo, wife of the slain Japanese Kenji Goto, said Monday that she
   is devastated by his death. But she said she remains "extremely proud
   of my husband, who reported the plight of people in conflict areas like
   Iraq, Somalia and Syria."
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