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Yazidis call attention to nearly 3,000 captives still missing a decade later

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.
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Iraq's Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return

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 ...
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Yazidis fear returning to their homeland, 10 years after massacre

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 ...
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Iraq’s missing Yazidis: Inside the long search for Islamic State captives

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 ...
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Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage

Iraqi Yazidi women cry as they hold pictures of victims and missing relatives during a ceremony in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, marking the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide. Ismael Adnan/SOPA ...
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Iraq's displaced Yazidis and security forces cast ballots in early voting in parliament election

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ISIS Attempted to Erase Heritage of Assyrians and Yazidis

August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group's genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq's marginalized communities, including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims, ...
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Official Says Nearly 3,100 Abducted Yazidis Still Held Captive by ISIS

Local female Manbij Military Council trainees learn marksmanship training Feb. 21, 2017, at Sanaa Training Center in Northwest Syria. The MMC is a multi-ethnic force that includes Kurds, Arabs, ...
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Kurdish militants train hundreds of Yazidis to fight Islamic State

SERIMLI MILITARY BASE, Syria, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Kurdish militants have trained hundreds of Yazidi volunteers at several camps inside Syria to fight Islamic State forces in Iraq, a member of the armed ...
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Iraq's displaced Yazidis and security forces cast ballots in early voting in parliament election

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Iraq’s displaced Yazidis and security forces cast ballots in early voting in parliament election

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Members of Iraqi security forces and displaced people living in camps, including minority Yazidis, cast their ballots Sunday in early voting ahead of this week’s parliamentary ...