‘Yazidi women are strong’: Kurdistan's female landmine clearance teams

Isis planted mines across Sinjar and displaced the Yazidi community. Now a group of women are clearing the way for the return of their people

Behind Hana Khider is a large grey wall map, with the minefields her team have been clearing marked in green. This is the place where Yazidis lived together," she says. It's where I lived in my childhood; I have so many memories here, it's very important to me."

The place is Sinjar, or Shingal as Yazidis know it, on Iraq's north-western border with Syria. Khider, 28, is speaking via video call from her office in the region.