Yazidi Kurds celebrated the Winter Forty-Day Feast (or in Kurdish Çileya Zivistanê) at Lalish Temple following a 40-day winter fast. Led by the Baba Sheikh, rituals included sacred recitations, ...

The collapse of Kurdish autonomy did not inaugurate Syria's current phase of violence; it confirmed a pattern already in ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — The fate of nearly 3,000 Yazidis taken captive by the Islamic State group in Iraq remains unknown, officials from Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government announced earlier this month.

KOCHO, Iraq (AP) — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq's Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were ...

In January 2023, the German parliament formally recognised Yazidi genocide. Yet, the recognition remains largely symbolic and ...

SINJAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him captive. The ...

Eleven years ago today, ISIS began its genocidal assault on Iraqi Yazidis. Reporting from the Sinjar region, our correspondent shows how a fractured community finds its path to recovery hindered by ...

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STORY: Aydin Hadid Talal and his brother were captured by Islamic State in 2014 as the militant group launched its ferocious assault on Iraq's Yazidi religious minority. :: Khanke, Iraq Thousands were ...

For minority groups in the northeast, the fragile ceasefire comes with more profound questions over their future in Syria.

KOCHO, Iraq (AP) — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq’s Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were ...