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

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 ...

Hasan Khalil has lived in the United States for 25 years, but he decided to vote in Tuesday's election and convinced 20 other ...

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 ...

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

Warda recalled a previous meeting with Trump in December 2018 at the White House during the signing ceremony for H.R. 390, a ...

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 ...

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and Yazidis, who hail from Kurdistan and persecuted since the medieval ages, most recently by the Islamic State, present ...