#religious conflict
Fighters of the Islamic State (of Iraq and Syria) have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith and abducted dozens of women and children, reported Kurdish officials. "They arrived in vehicles and they started their killing this afternoon," Kurdish official Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. The massacre, which occurred in the Northern Iraqi town of Kocho, occurred after the Islamic State militants ordered that the men either convert to Islam or be killed. Social media users added that the…
