So far this year, around 10,000 Yazidis have returned to their homes in the Shingal (Sinjar) region of northern Nineveh ...

Thousands of Yazidis were trapped in the Sinjar mountains as they tried to escape from Daesh. ... [+] (Photo credit: Emrah ...

Ten years ago, as Islamic State ransacked Iraq and Syria, captives used makeshift tattoos to honour loved ones and defy their ...

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

Some fear that if Yazidis don’t return, the community may lose its identity. “Without Sinjar, Yazidism would be like a cancer patient who’s dying,” said Hadi Babasheikh, the brother ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their fellow Yazidis launched a rescue effort almost immediately, but nearly a decade later, their task is still unfinished. In November 2015, Bahar and her three young children had just been sold ...

The trial marks the first time that IS attacks against the Yazidis, one of Iraq’s oldest religious minorities, have been tried in Sweden. The hearings are expected to last about two months ...

Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein state has passed a law granting residency to Yazidis who sought refuge in the country, thereby ...

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