After a three-year absence, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad has finally returned to her home in the village of Kojo in northern Iraq, the ...
ISIS committed some of its worst atrocities in Sinjar when it swept through the Yazidi region two years ago
As Iraq’s anti-terrorism forces begin its attacks on two villages east of Mosul, ISIS took control of Anbar’s Rutba
Of the 72 mass graves documented by AP, the smallest contains three bodies; the largest is believed to hold thousands
‘ISIS says that they represent Muslims, but Muslims must give a stronger stand against such claim,’ she said
'I saw them raping my Kurdish sisters and I couldn’t accept this injustice,' the 24-year-old commander of the female-only unit said
Iraq’s only female Yazidi lawmaker said investigations to document crimes against her minority group is still ‘ongoing’
‘There is no cure for the survivor, no support. We’re asking the international community, the United Nations and America: please help us, save us’
Three mass graves have been found in the northern town of Sinjar, where Kurdish forces drove out Islamic State militants
It is the sixth mass grave discovered in or near the town of Sinjar since it was recaptured from ISIS militants earlier this month
The Associated Press obtained extensive video footage of the tunnels, which were uncovered by Kurdish forces that took back the city
Members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was brutally attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, looted and burned Muslim homes in ...
The grave contains the bodies of some 78 women aged between 40 to around 80,
The U.S. military conducted 20 air strikes in Iraq and seven others in Syria
Kurdish-led forces swept into Sinjar, Iraq, the second day of a major offensive to retake the city, which has been under the brutal domination of ISIS ...
Retaking Ramadi would provide a major psychological boost to Iraqi security forces after nearly collapsing twice since last year
Peshmerga forces also penetrated an ISIS supply route between Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq
Sinjar is a symbolic and strategic prize sitting astride the main highway linking the cities of Mosul and Raqqa
A dozen strikes near the Syrian cities of Kobane, Raqqah and al-Hasakah destroyed ISIS vehicles, buildings and fighting positions
While in Syria, the air strikes centered on the town of Kobani, in Iraq it targeted ISIS positions near Sinjar and Mosul
ISIS swept into Sinjar and surrounding villages as part of their summer blitz across northern Iraq
At least two peshmerga fighters have been killed by ISIS snipers and 25 were wounded in the latest fighting in Iraq’s Sinjar
Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani says ‘during the past 48 hours, the peshmerga opened two main routes to Mount Sinjar’
A Kurdish official said a corridor was opened to evacuate Yazidis in Sinjar, adding that Iraqi forces were in no way part of the operation
The Sinjar area is home to many Yazidis before ISIS fighters attacked in August
A Yazidi delegation met with U.S. officials in late October to seek arms and more humanitarian aid
How did Yazidis survive in the Middle East when they are not even Muslims, Christians or Jewish?
Her two sisters remain in the militants’ hands, and her father, other brothers and other male relatives have vanished
A report by the watchdog detailed eye-witness accounts of those who survived what the rights group described as a 'massacre'
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