Hala Safil, 21, a Yazidi activist who was enslaved by Islamic State group militants for three years and lives in a displaced camp, attends an exhibition during a gathering to commemorate five years ...

Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of fasting. During my ethnographic ...

The Yazidis of northern Iraq, an ancient religious minority brutally persecuted by Islamic State, want nothing more than peace, security and a better life in their home town of Sinjar - but they want ...

FILE - Relatives cry near the remains of people from the minority Yazidi who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave in Sinjar, during a funeral ceremony in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Yazidis are gathering in Lalish for Jamaya Sheikhadi festival, the Gathering and Feast of Seven ...

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Seven years ago, a brutal attack by ISIS forced hundreds of thousands of Yazidis to flee their homes in northern Iraq. Many were eventually imprisoned, killed or sold into slavery. Now, despite ISIS’s ...

NEAR ZUMAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Some members of Iraq's Yazidi minority are turning on their Arab neighbours, staging deadly reprisals against Sunni villagers they believe collaborated in atrocities ...

We're going to shift our attention now abroad to Iraq. It's been six years since ISIS launched a genocide against the Yazidi people. ISIS was driven out a year later, but nearly 200,000 Yazidis still ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Houman Oliaei, Brandeis University (THE CONVERSATION) Each year in the second week of ...