UN envoy highlights need to end Iraqi Yazidi minority's suffering

UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (C) attends a commemoration event to mark the 5th anniversary of Islamic State (IS) sweeping to Yazidi areas in Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 1, 2019. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert on Thursday underlined the need to end the suffering of Yazidi minority caused by the Islamic State occupation of the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. (Xinhua)