August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s ...

Nearly 2,600 Yazidis remain missing a decade after IS rampaged through their Iraqi heartland. Most are feared dead, but ...

ISIS and other Islamist extremists are waging genocide, the most egregious of all human-rights atrocities, against Christians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, and other defenseless religious minorities ...

previously featured in chilling ISIS recruitment video Appeared with friend Reyaad Khan attempting to recruit Western Muslims 'Kuffar [non-believers] are afraid we will slaughter Yazidis ...

Daesh specifically targeted religious minorities, Yazidis and Christians, for destruction in an attempt to annihilate religious pluralism and establish a purely Islamic region, in accordance with ...

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And he had no identification and no travel documents. Ten years after Islamic State’s brutal campaign against the Yazidis spurred the United States to send its military back to Iraq to halt its ...

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I said: ‘I will call you’ and he answered the call.” :: Sinjar, Iraq Islamic State deems the Yazidis’ ancient faith heretical – and has sought to kill or subjugate its followers ...

Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority, most of whom live in northern Iraq. They faced harsh persecution at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group, who took over the region in 2014 and ...

On this weekend episode, our Iraq Bureau Chief Timour Azhari travels through the regions destroyed by ISIS, and speaks with the Yazidis still trying to find their missing loved ones, and bring ...