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Jane Arraf, The New York Times
Published: 14 Mar 2021 08:56 AM BdST
Updated: 14 Mar 2021 08:56 AM BdST Yazidi women waited on the Iraqi side of the border on March 4, 2021, hoping to reunite with children in Syria whom they hadn’t seen in years. The New York Times Some of the Yazidi children who were reunited with their mothers in a safe house in Iraq on March 11, 2021. The New York Times
The nine young mothers rushed into the spartan offices of a Syrian border post, looking for the sons and daughters taken from them two years ago, children they thought they would never see again.
FAYSH KHABUR BORDER CROSSING, Iraq
The nine young mothers rushed into the spartan offices of a Syrian border post, looking for the sons and daughters taken from them two years ago, children they thought they would never see again.
The bewildered children, dressed in new puffy jackets from the orphanage they had come from, were mostly too young to remember their mothers. They started to cry as the sobbing women grabbed and kissed them and then led them away from the orphanage workers who were the only caregivers they knew.
“I was so happy, but it was a shock for both of us,” said one mother, who said she had been dreaming of seeing her daughter again for nearly two years. “She is not used to me yet.”