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 ...

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.

Discovering an ancient religion in the mountains of Iraq, specifically in Northern Iraq, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yazidi-Americans, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, filed a lawsuit against French cement maker Lafarge on Thursday, accusing it of conspiring to provide ...

(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 ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani on Friday congratulated the Yazidis on the ...

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 ...

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 ...