Birds sit in a cage at a market inside the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq during sunset, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Yazidi women in traditional clothing stand outside their houses in the village of Dugure in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
Children play soccer in the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq during sunset, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, prepare to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Lalish, the Yazidi's most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq is seen, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Residents buy vegetables at a market inside the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq during sunset, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
A man sits in a truck at a market inside the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq during sunset, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, prepare to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Yazidi women stand for a portrait in the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
A cemetery near the village of Hardan holds the graves of 16 Yazidi victims who were executed by the Islamic State and later identified by DNA testing in Sinjar, Iraq, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, prepare to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
FILE - Relatives cry near the remains of people from the minority Yazidi who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave in Sinjar, during a funeral ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Shirin Qassim, a Yazidi returnee, looks at her damaged house in the village of Hardan in Sinjar, Iraq, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
Residents buy vegetables at a market inside the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq during sunset, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Hadi Shammo, 30, a Yazidi returnee, stands amid the wreckage of his destroyed family house in the village of Dugure in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. "In the end we have to return here — our life is here" in Sinjar, said Shammo, whose family returned from a camp in Duhok area. "This is part of our identity." (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, drive to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
FILE - Iraqis from the Yazidi community inspect their house that was badly damaged by Islamic State fighters during their occupation of Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, prepare to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Yazidi men sit together during sunset in the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Friday, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Visitors walk up stairs in Lalish, the Yazidi's most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Rihan Ismail, 24, a Yazidi survivor who was kidnapped by the Islamic State in August 2014 and returned in June 2023, sits in her family's house in the village of Hardan in Sinjar, Iraq, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. The house where she lives with her brother, a police officer, and his wife and toddler, is one of the few still standing in the village. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
Khudeida Murad Ismail stands for a portrait in the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Friday, June 21, 2024. Ismail refuses to leave the camp where he runs a makeshift store selling eggs, instant noodles, pacifiers and hair henna. Leaving would mean losing his livelihood, and the payout wouldn't cover rebuilding his house, he says. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Haifa Barakat, 25, a Yazidi pharmacist who left a camp for displaced Yazidis in June, sits in her family's rented house in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Now that her family is back, "it's a totally new life — we don't know anybody here," she says. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
FILE - This May 2015 photo provided by the the Mass Graves Directorate of the Kurdish Regional Government shows a human skull in a mass grave containing Yazidis killed by Islamic State militants in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. (Kurdish Mass Graves Directorate via AP, File)
A tower rises above trees at Lalish, the Yazidi's most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Visitors sit together in Lalish, the Yazidi's most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
A child is baptized in Lalish, the Yazidi's most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
A woman walks through Lalish, the Yazidi's most holy temple, in the Shekhan district of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
Yazidis in Khanke in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, prepare to return to their homes in Sinjar, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
A Yazidi returnee family lives inside a school since they are unable to afford to rebuild their damaged house in the village of Hardan in Sinjar, Iraq, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)