The U.S. military said on Wednesday al Qaeda was the "prime suspect" in suicide bombings overnight on an ancient minority sect that Iraqi officials said killed at least 175 people in northwestern Iraq.
Yazidis, who are members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect, live in northern Iraq , Syria and Turkey .
They say they have often faced persecution in Iraq because the chief angel they venerate as a manifestation of God is often identified as the fallen angel Satan in biblical terminology. Full text
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