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Sundus Garis, a 16-year-old displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community who fled Sinjar, is pictured through a car's window during her wedding ceremony in the northernwestern Iraqi Kurdish city of Dohuk, near the border with Turkey, on January 23, 2020. Sinjar, a region west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that was overrun by the fanatic Islamic State (IS) group five years ago, is the historic home of the Yazidi minority which under went a brutal campaign waged by IS jihadists who forced children to become soldiers and used thousands of women as sex slaves. Only a sliver of Sinjar's native population of 500,000 Yazidis has returned since their region was taken back by Iraqi forces from IS in 2017, with the rest saying persistent destruction, the lack of services and the tense security situation have kept them in camps. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)
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