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  Newly-graduated Afghan National Army (ANA) officers pray during a graduation ceremony at the Afghan National Army training center in Kabul, Aug. 24. Foreign Policy looked at Afghanistan's troubled economy in an Aug. 28 article on FP's South Asia Channel. Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images
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Adel (R) and Mohammed (L) in their destroyed apartment, which was struck by an Israeli missile during fighting between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 16. Their families live in a UN-run school; the men sleep overnight in the shell of the building to watch over their remaining possessions. 's David Kenner reported from the Strip on the massive rebuilding effort that Gazans face in the wake of recent destruction. Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
Adel (R) and Mohammed (L) in their destroyed apartment, which was struck by an Israeli missile during fighting between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 16. Their families live in a UN-run school; the men sleep overnight in the shell of the building to watch over their remaining possessions. 's David Kenner reported from the Strip on the massive rebuilding effort that Gazans face in the wake of recent destruction. Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

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Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate his victory in the presidential election in front of the AKP party headquarters in Istanbul, Aug. 10. Murat Ucer looked at Turkey's economic prospects in the months ahead in a recent Lab Report for FP's Democracy Lab. Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate his victory in the presidential election in front of the AKP party headquarters in Istanbul, Aug. 10. Murat Ucer looked at Turkey's economic prospects in the months ahead in a recent Lab Report for FP's Democracy Lab. Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images

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Palestinian children look up at an Israeli plane in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Aug. 4. Mohammed AbedABED/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinian children look up at an Israeli plane in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Aug. 4. Mohammed AbedABED/AFP/Getty Images

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On Sunday, as the militants of the Islamic State rolled west from Mosul toward the city of Sinjar, the ancestral home of the Yazidi people, thousands of members of the ancient, persecuted religious community fled their homes carrying whatever they could, to take shelter in the mountains. As many as 40,000 Yazidis -- of the estimated 130,000 who escaped -- are now trapped on Mount Sinjar, where they sought refuge. With food and water supplies running low, they will not be able to sustain their position for long; but should they descend, death or forced conversion await. Attendants of an 11th-century religion that combines elements of Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Christianity, the Kurdish-speaking Yazidis have been targeted by the Islamic State for extermination. As the Guardian reports, local officials estimate that 500 Yazidis "including 40 children, have been killed in the past week." On Thursday, the Obama administration authorized emergency humanitarian aid (the U.S. military dropped 5,300 gallons of fresh drinking water and food rations) as well as possible airstrikes to break the surrounding siege. The fighters of the Islamic State, Obama said, "have called for the systematic destruction of the entire Yazidi people, which would constitute genocide." In their history, the Yazidis claim that they have survived 72 attempts to wipe them from the earth. Their religion, which calls for the worship of a fallen angel, has historically made them a target of persecution. Now, with the world watching, they face one more. Above, members of an Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar sit together in the school where they are taking shelter in Dohuk, on Aug. 5. SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images
On Sunday, as the militants of the Islamic State rolled west from Mosul toward the city of Sinjar, the ancestral home of the Yazidi people, thousands of members of the ancient, persecuted religious community fled their homes carrying whatever they could, to take shelter in the mountains. As many as 40,000 Yazidis -- of the estimated 130,000 who escaped -- are now trapped on Mount Sinjar, where they sought refuge. With food and water supplies running low, they will not be able to sustain their position for long; but should they descend, death or forced conversion await. Attendants of an 11th-century religion that combines elements of Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Christianity, the Kurdish-speaking Yazidis have been targeted by the Islamic State for extermination. As the Guardian reports, local officials estimate that 500 Yazidis "including 40 children, have been killed in the past week." On Thursday, the Obama administration authorized emergency humanitarian aid (the U.S. military dropped 5,300 gallons of fresh drinking water and food rations) as well as possible airstrikes to break the surrounding siege. The fighters of the Islamic State, Obama said, "have called for the systematic destruction of the entire Yazidi people, which would constitute genocide." In their history, the Yazidis claim that they have survived 72 attempts to wipe them from the earth. Their religion, which calls for the worship of a fallen angel, has historically made them a target of persecution. Now, with the world watching, they face one more. Above, members of an Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar sit together in the school where they are taking shelter in Dohuk, on Aug. 5. SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

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Syrian children enjoy a swing on the first day of Eid-al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on July 28 in the besieged town of Douma, near Damascus. Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images
Syrian children enjoy a swing on the first day of Eid-al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on July 28 in the besieged town of Douma, near Damascus. Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images

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Hindu devotees offer evening prayers during Sawan, the holiest month in the Hindu calendar, in Allahabad, India, July 21. Prabhat Kumar Verma/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
Hindu devotees offer evening prayers during Sawan, the holiest month in the Hindu calendar, in Allahabad, India, July 21. Prabhat Kumar Verma/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

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