The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Yazidis_by_ISIL" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL">genocide of Yazidis by ISIL</a> begins.<sup about="#mwt30" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_3#cite_note-4" id="mwASU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASY">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt27" class="citation magazine cs1" id="CITEREFStout2014">Stout, David (6 August 2014). <a class="external text" href="http://time.com/3085270/iraq-yazidi-mount-sinjar-islamic-state-refugees" id="mwBs0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Be Captured and Killed, or Risk Dying of Thirst: The Awful Choice Facing the Refugees of Sinjar"</a>. <i id="mwBs4"><a href="./Time_(magazine)" id="mwBs8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150603153352/http://time.com/3085270/iraq-yazidi-mount-sinjar-islamic-state-refugees/" id="mwBtA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 3 June 2015<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBtE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBtI">3 June</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt27" class="Z3988" id="mwBtM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Time&amp;rft.atitle=Be+Captured+and+Killed%2C+or+Risk+Dying+of+Thirst%3A+The+Awful+Choice+Facing+the+Refugees+of+Sinjar&amp;rft.date=2014-08-06&amp;rft.aulast=Stout&amp;rft.aufirst=David&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F3085270%2Firaq-yazidi-mount-sinjar-islamic-state-refugees&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+3"></span></span>