Racing the Clock to Document ISIS Genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis
For years, a U.N. team has painstakingly exhumed mass graves, but now the Iraqi government is ordering it to leave. Many ...
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Iraq’s Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return
Thursday’s announcement came as Yazidis gathered in the village of Kocho in northern Iraq’s Sinjar province on the tenth anniversary of the massacre that killed hundreds there. Displaced ...
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Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes
Some fear that if Yazidis don’t return, the community may lose its identity. “Sinjar is the Yazidi center of gravity,” said Hadi Babasheikh, the brother and office manager of the late ...
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The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the ...
Islamic State remains a potent threat five years after its military defeat
Islamic State may have lost all of its territory, but the group’s ideological and operational capabilities are far from ...
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Iraq's Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return
During their rampage across the wider region of Sinjar — the Yazidi heartland — IS killed and enslaved thousands of Yazidis, whom the Sunni militants consider heretics. To this day ...