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Iraq and its minorities face a new challenge with coronavirus
During the past few months I have spent working with religious minorities in Iraq, I have realized that these communities and Iraq’s anti-government ... Middle East -
France takes in 27 more Yazidi women victims of ISIS
Twenty-seven Yazidi women arrived in France with their children on Wednesday from Iraq, fulfilling President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to take in ... World News -
For Yazidis, Baghdadi’s death ‘doesn’t feel like justice yet’
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death will mean nothing to 19-year-old rape victim Jamila unless the ISIS militants who enslaved her are ... Features -
Yazidi doctor awarded for his work helping women calls for justice
Yazidi families would not feel safe returning to their homes in Iraq until ISIS extremists accused of atrocities against the religious minority face ... Features -
Nobel Prize winner Nadia Murad warns wildfires threaten Iraqi mass graves
Nobel Prize-winner and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad has warned that wildfires raging in northern Iraq could destroy crucial evidence of genocide ... Features -
Iraq begins examining Yazidi mass graves remains
Iraq will use DNA testing to identify the remains of 141 bodies found in mass graves believed to contain the Yazidi victims of ISIS massacres, the ... Middle East -
Iraq to identify remains from ISIS graves in Yazidi area
Iraqi authorities will begin identifying the remains of 141 people exhumed from mass graves in the Yazidi region of Sinjar, the head of ... Features -
UN team unearths 12 mass graves in Iraq probe of ISIS crimes
A UN team investigating the massacre of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and other atrocities has excavated 12 mass graves and is collecting witness ... Middle East -
Iraq: Yazidis to accept children of ISIS rape into community
The children of Yazidi women raped by ISIS men will be welcomed into the minority faith, a community leader said Thursday, allowing women taken as ... Features -
Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis freed from ISIS to Iraq
Syrian Kurds on Saturday repatriated 25 women and children from Iraq’s Yazidi minority after freeing them during the final push against ISIS ... Middle East -
Iraq opens first ISIS mass grave in Yazidi region
Iraqi authorities on Friday opened a first mass grave containing victims of ISIS in the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar, where extremists brutally ... Middle East -
Prince of ISIS-ravaged Yazidis dies in Germany
The longtime head of the world’s Yazidis, a minority whose Iraqi community was ferociously targeted by ISIS, has died in Germany after a long ... Middle East -
Shocking story of a Yazidi girl: Sold and raped in Baghdad
The Iraqi Observatory for Victims of Human Trafficking on Wednesday revealed the details of a Yazidi girl who was sold and raped in Baghdad after she ... Features -
Nobel laureate Nadia Murad urges world to ‘protect’ Yazidis
Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, a survivor of ISIS sex slavery, implored the global community to help free hundreds of women and girls still held by the ... Middle East -
Yazidi mothers of children by ISIS militants face heartbreaking choices
Her family is preparing to emigrate from Iraq to Australia and start a new life after the suffering ISIS wreaked on their small religious minority. ... Features -
In first news conference, Nobel Prize winner urges global fight against genocide
A co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize called Monday for a global fight against genocide and sexual violence, pledging to be a voice for victims ... World News -
Former Yazidi ISIS captive, Congolese doctor win Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and a Yazidi former captive of ISIS for their work to highlight and eliminate the ... World News -
Why do some Yazidi girls held captive by ISIS choose not to return home?
Aileen was only nine years old when she was kidnapped by ISIS from her small town in northern Iraq, and taken to Raqqa in Syria. “They killed ... Middle East -
Samira: A Yazidi survivor tells her accounts of ISIS atrocities in Iraq
Since the entrance of ISIS into Sinjar which is the stronghold of the Yazidi people in northern Iraq in August 2014, and until June of 2018, official ... Features -
Yazidi girl held in ISIS captivity for 4 years reunites with father
Prominent Yazidi human rights activist, Nadia Murad, tweeted a photo of a Yazidi father reunited with his daughter after she was in ISIS captivity for ... World News -
Two mass graves ‘with bodies of 40 children’ found in Yazidi district of Iraq
Iraqi paramilitary forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians, including women and children, in an area home to ... Middle East -
Despite Greek shelter, Yazidis struggle to integrate
Although Ibrahim Hondeta’s Yazidi family reached Greece a year ago after fleeing persecution, they still fear being the target of violence and ... Features -
Brainwashed by a cult: French priest offers therapy to ‘reclaim’ Yazidi captives
It was a lucky haircut that opened the doors of Iraq to Father Patrick Desbois. In 2015, the French priest was trying to find a way to get into Iraq ... Middle East -
Minister says 800 Yazidis refugees resettled in Canada
Nearly 800 Yazidi women and girls and others who fled persecution by ISIS in northern Iraq have been resettled in Canada, the immigration minister ... Middle East -
Why Kurdish referendum is unlikely to end Iraqi minorities’ dilemma
After gaining control of much of Iraq and Syria, ISIS and other extremists committed grave atrocities and international human rights violations ... Features -
Kurdish Independence and the unheard Yazidi voice
Yazidis have a population of about a half million people in Iraq. Their voting power in the upcoming independence referendum in the Kurdistan Region ... Middle East -
Long wait for captive Yazidis’ return spent rebuilding shrine in Iraq’s Bashiqa
Yazidi men and boys in the town of Bashiqa north east of Mosul are rebuilding a shrine destroyed by ISIS as they wait for the return of women from ... Middle East -
Intimate photos emerge of ISIS judge in Iraq with ‘captive’ Yazidi women
Recently, social media published photos of one of the ISIS fighters in Iraq with one of the Yazidi female prisoners who was captured by Abu Bakr ... Features -
Nadia Murad, after returning home, urges Iraq to try ISIS supporters
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 ... Features -
‘You will blow yourselves up,’ ISIS tells Iraqi boys in training camps
They made the captive children, weak from hunger, fight over a single tomato. Then the ISIS militants told them that in paradise they could eat to ... Features