Iraqi artist puts trauma onto canvas

A jihadist fighter slits a man's throat. Another brandishes a severed head, spiked on his rifle, as more militants dump bodies into a trench overflowing with corpses.

This is how painter Ammar Salim depicts the atrocities Islamic State extremists perpetrated against his minority group - the Yazidis - in northern Iraq last summer.

In his tiny apartment in Dohuk, in Iraq's Kurdish region, Salim has attempted to put the collective memories of his community on canvas in a series entitled The Yazidi Genocide.