The Yazidis of northern Iraq, an ancient religious minority brutally persecuted by Islamic State, want nothing more than peace, security and a better life in their home town of Sinjar - but they want ...

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 ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Yazidis are gathering in Lalish for Jamaya Sheikhadi festival, the Gathering and Feast of Seven ...

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 ...

Stitched in among the quilt of Vietnamese restaurants, Mexican mercados and Middle Eastern groceries along North 27th Street, Lincoln’s Yazidi community added its own patch to “Cultural Row” on Friday ...

(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 ...

Nayef Jasso had lived all his life in the remote Yazidi village of Kocho, which was established by his father. But he happened to be in the city of Duhok during the first days of August 2014, as ISIS ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Germany’s foreign ministry on Saturday called on the Iraqi government to accelerate reconstruction ...

KOCHO, Iraq (AP) — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq's Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were ...

It's been 10 years since militants with the so-called Islamic State tore through northern Iraq, launching a brutal genocide against the Yazidi people. Thousands were killed in the attacks, while ...

Does a viral photo document ISIS militants parading caged Yazidi women through Mosul, Iraq in 2016 before burning them to death? No, that's not true: The photo was taken in Alexandria, Egypt in 2013.