Yazidi

Where are the missing Yazidis? Thousands still held captive after ISIS attacks

After a decade of ISIS terrorism on the Yazidis in Iraq, a global network of activists, survivors, and volunteers continue their efforts to locate those still missing.

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Yazidi refugees stand behind fences as they wait for the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie at a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Midyat in Mardin province, Turkey, June 20, 2015.
A gavel and a block is pictured on the judge's bench in this illustration picture taken in the Sussex County Court of Chancery in Georgetown, Delaware, U.S., June 9, 2021.

Sweden sentences woman to 12 years in prison for genocide, war crimes in Syria

The woman, identified as 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq, returned to Sweden in 2020 and is currently serving time for other offences committed in Syria.

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Rojin Hadid Talal (C), a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority who was captured by the Islamic State militant group as a child, sits with his brother Aydin Hadid Talal (L) and uncle Saeed Talal (R) at their home in Khanke, in Dohuk governorate, Iraq, June 8, 2024.

Iraq's missing Yazidis: Inside the long search for Islamic State captives

A decade after the Islamic State's categorical assault on the Yazidis, families are fighting to reunite with loved ones long thought dead.

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FAWZIA SIDO, then aged nine, was captured with two of her brothers by Islamic State in the summer of 2014, before ending up held prisoner in Gaza. In this illustrative photo, Yazidi women and children rescued from Islamic State wait to board buses bound for Sinjar in Iraq’s Yazidi heartland.

Yazidi woman freed by IDF from Gaza reveals ISIS made them eat babies

A Yazidi former slave rescued from Gaza reveals her horrifying experiences in jihadi captivity

|ByJONATHAN SPYER

Middle East needs to learn lessons from the Holocaust - opinion

One lesson is for sure: We must never see the unnecessary and brutal, inhumane deaths of millions of innocent human beings again. But we continue to, across the region, from the Kurds to the Yazidis.

MARCH 3, 2021ByDR. ALI AL NUAIMI
Thikran Kamiran Yousif, 22, visits his father's grave in Kojo, Iraq February 7, 2021.

Yazidis denounce Syrian ruling requiring them to follow Islamic law

Members of religious minority reportedly requested their own court for personal issues, say their faith is thousands of years old.

FEBRUARY 22, 2021ByKRISTINA JOVANOVSKI/THE MEDIA LINE
Mourners stand next to the coffins with the remains of people from the Yazidi minority, who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave, to bury them in Kojo, Iraq February 6, 2021.

Yazidis' region is in Turkey and Iran’s crosshairs after genocide

Warmongering from Ankara appears to be in line with its need to keep attacking Iraq and Syria using “fighting terrorism” as an excuse.

FEBRUARY 20, 2021BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A view of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of displaced Yazidis continue to live in displacement camps

Yazidis mourn genocide victims after bodies identified

It is believed almost 3,000 Yazidis are still missing.

FEBRUARY 8, 2021BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Yazidi activist Nadia Murad talks to people during her visit to Sinjar, Iraq December 14, 2018.

For Iraq's persecuted Yazidis, return plan is fraught with risk

The Yazidis have suffered since IS marauded into Sinjar in 2014, one of the Sunni extremist group's conquests that shocked the West into military action to stop it.

OCTOBER 16, 2020ByREUTERS
A girl from the Yazidi sect fleeing the violence in Sinjar rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, in 2014

The world is continuing to ignore the sufferings of the Yazidis

No government is willing to step forward to help them rebuild their destroyed villages, not even their own governments.

AUGUST 1, 2020ByDAWOOD SALEH
A girl from the Yazidi sect fleeing the violence in Sinjar rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, in 2014

Turkey’s occupation of Syria slammed for ethnic cleansing

The testimony now now makes it appears that US officials ignored the ethnic cleansing and harm to minorities in Syria.

JUNE 13, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A girl from the Yazidi sect fleeing the violence in Sinjar rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, in 2014

Yazidi girls sold as sex slaves create choir to find healing

The choir has sung at Westminster Abbey and will perform at the Houses of Parliament and in front of Prince Charles.

FEBRUARY 4, 2020ByREUTERS
Yazidi's women attend a ceremony at Lilash Temple to commemorate the death of women who were killed by Islamic State militants, during the International Women Day, in Shikhan north of Iraq March 8, 2019

Turkish airstrikes target Yazidi areas recovering from ISIS genocide

The impoverished Yazidi community survived ISIS genocidal attacks but has been targeted repeatedly by Turkey since 2017.

JANUARY 16, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A general view of the Yazidi refugee camp on Mount Sinjar