Iraq’s health ministry on Sunday announced a campaign to collect blood samples from Yazidis in northwestern Nineveh province, ...

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 ...

The Yazidis are one of the world’s oldest and most misunderstood religious communities. This video explains their beliefs, ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...