Yazidis

Thousands of ISIS-linked women, children still held in Syria’s camps amid escape efforts - analysis

While some of them have been repatriated over the last six years, many of them remain.

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.
 Members of Syrian security forces ride on a back of a truck after Syrian troops entered the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday following two days of clashes, in Sweida, Syria July 15, 2025.

Israel's decisive Syria strikes highlight need for intervention in preventing genocides - analysis

 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.

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

Displaced Yazidi women protest outside the headquarters of the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), north of Baghdad, in 2015.

Prosecutors seek 8 years for Dutch woman accused of keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria


Who will help save the Yazidis?

Thousands of women and children are in danger of being brutally murdered, sold into sex slavery.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Yazidi activist Nadia Murad talks to people during her visit to Sinjar, Iraq December 14, 2018.

Yazidis rescued from ISIS face bleak future upon return to Iraq

Foreign ISIS members appear to receive more aid and better housing than Yazidi victims while fears mount that ISIS is using human shields in Baghuz.

A relative kisses a Yazidi survivor boy following his release from Islamic State militants in Syria, in Duhok, Iraq, March 2, 2019.

Survivors of ISIS genocide have nothing, four years later

A photo essay.

A general view of the Yazidi refugee camp in Mount Sinjar, Iraq February 4, 2019

Outrage in Syria, Iraq as ISIS members treated as celebrities in west

Ali Y. Al-Baroodi, who survived the ISIS occupation of Mosul, was shocked to see how ISIS members described their enjoyable life over the last few years.

PEOPLE FLEE fighting in Baghuz where the Syrian Democratic Forces are liberating areas of eastern Syria from Islamic State. (Reuters)

#WeRemember

As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, we must remember the victims – six million of whom were Jews – and consider how to stop such atrocities from occurring again.

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Poland in January 2018..

The plight of the Yazidis

Many Yazidis feel that the world has abandoned them to suffer alone.

The Sinjar genocide led to the displacement of thousands of Yazidis who now live in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq, as well as refugee camps in neighboring Syria and Turkey.

Rojava Peshmerga – the group may be the US’s ticket out of Syria crisis

A patchwork of different armed groups have struggled to gain control of the road from Dohuk in the Kurdistan region to Sinjar over the last years.

ROJAVA PESHMERGA troops guard a road in northern Iraq in December 2015.

Yazidi genocide survivor will use Nobel money to build hospital

400,000 Yazidis remain without basic services and are unable to return to homes four years after genocide.

Nadia Murad before she visited Yad Vashem.

December 3, 2018: Yazidi genocide

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Terra Incognita: Israel and the Yazidis

Shortsighted politics prevent genocide recognition

A Yazidi man stands next to a mass grave discovered in November 2015 after Kurdish forces liberated Sinjar from Islamic State