According to the media I have been checking most of the Yazidis have been evacuated from Mount Shingal to Syrian Kurdish controlled areas in Syria.
Many have then travelled on to northern Iraq but many are still in Syria, often because they are not strong enough to continue.
It is the Syrian Kurds who have accomplished this essentially on their own and there has been very little acknowledgement in the media of this.
Photographs taken yesterday and today can be seen here:
http://www.aa.com.tr/...
and a video here:
http://www.aa.com.tr/...
They are absolutely heartbreaking. If you can't handle it don't look.
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Some Kurdish media are reporting that the Syrian Kurds have been able to clear much of the area around Mount Shingal, but I haven't been able to confirm it.