SINJAR, Iraq — When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good.
She had yearned for that moment throughout long years of captivity.
Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district, killing and enslaving thousands from the Yazidi religious minority.
As they moved her from Iraq to Syria, she clung to what home meant to her: a childhood filled with laughter, a community so tight knit the neighbor’s house was like your own. Read More...
Watching television news after 7 p.m. on almost any night, Bill Haslam says, is “unbearable, or at least it is for me. Because it’s just totally, ‘I’m trying to get you to be as outraged as you can about the things that I already know that you’re outraged about.’”
Haslam is like many Americans who are exhausted after half a dozen years of nonstop political conflict and news cycles that bleed from one into another and another. Read More...
Find Out ”Was Jockey Alex Canchari Married?” Alex Canchari, a highly talented jockey, left this world at the young age of 29, leaving his admirers and loved ones in deep mourning.
The horse racing community has been extending prayers and condolences to Alex’s family during this difficult time.
The unexpected passing of the jockey at the age of 29 has left many hearts broken, with people expressing that he departed too soon. Read More...