https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/exclusive-obamas-isis-blunder-hundreds-thousands-still-displaced/
"In addition to the devastation inflicted on the Yazidis, ISIS also left a permanent scar on Iraq's Christian population. During the group's advance across the Nineveh Plains, Christians fled to the sanctuary towns of Alqosh and Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, where local Christian communities and churches sheltered them. The Peshmerga (Kurdish forces), along with the Christian Nineveh Plains Protection Units (NPU), defended these areas from ISIS incursions.."
