The genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq’s Sinjar District will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the rise and “fall” of ISIS. It is hard to fathom the pain, suffering, and ...

The Yazidis are hardly a household name for most Americans, but they have lived in the same region in northern Iraq for centuries, with communities in Syria and Turkey as well.

The remains of 22 Yazidis killed during the 2014 Islamic State (ISIS) assault on their ancestral homeland of Shingal (Sinjar) were laid to rest on Wednesday. This marks the eighth batch of remains ...

The Yazidis were targeted by al-Qaeda in Iraq and similar groups following Saddam Hussein’s ousting. In 2007, 800 were killed in a series of bomb blasts, hastening the exodus.

Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved ...

KDP official Vian Dakhil tells Kurdistan24 that stability in Sinjar is impossible until it returns to the Kurdistan Region ...

ISIS slaughtered Yazidis by the hundreds, Yian Dakhil, the only lawmaker representing the Yazidis in Iraq’s Parliament, told CNN last year. Reports emerged from some Yazidi survivors that ISIS ...

The Yazidis’ situation had deteriorated under Saddam Hussein, whose “Arabization” campaigns in the 1980s – which targeted Iraqi Kurds – resulted in the internal displacement and ...

"The Nineveh Plains represent the heart of the Syriac people's historical memory and stand as a living testament to ...

Yazidis who sought refuge in Germany after surviving atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) fear they could be ...

The Yazidis are a small religious minority and have faced persecution again and again over the centuries. Some say it is now time to leave Iraq for good.

More than 3,000 Yazidis still missing after collapse of Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate Fleeing Yazidis cross the border from Iraqi into Syria in 2014 after their villages were attacked by ...