Qasim and his parents and three brothers, along with their wives and children, were able to get away from Sinjar, to a . . .
It’s been a year since Qasim left his home in Sinjar, Iraq. He was fleeing an advance by the Islamic State — the same advance that left tens of thousands of other Yazidis stranded in the mountains, trapped between hunger and dehydration and the threat of mass violence.