'ISIS controlled territory in 2015 shrank by 30 percent'
US coalition spokesman comments on hardline group's losses in Iraq and Syria.
YAZIDI REFUGEES played a role in the liberation of their town from ISIS. In 2014 ISIS and its local collaborators had slaughtered many Yazidis and sold thousands of women and children into slavery. Now Yazidi fighters, some of whom had been fighting alongside Kurds against Saddam Hussein’s regime,(photo credit: VAGER SAADULLAH)ByREUTERS