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Yazidi men sit together during sunset in the Sharya displacement camp in the Duhok area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann)
July 29, 2024, 12:54 pm
10 years on, many Yazidis uprooted by ISIS onslaught still struggle to find stability
Members of devastated community are trickling back home to Sinjar district after a decade of displacement, but despite their homeland’s deep significance, many see no future there
By ABBY SEWELL and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Displaced Yazidis sit by their tent at the Chamishko camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in the city of Zakho in the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on May 5, 2022. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
May 9, 2022, 8:43 am
North Iraq violence displaces Yazidis once again
‘We lived in a camp for six years,’ says Kalo, who only returned home two years ago after community was massacred by IS in 2014
By Shvan Harki
A Syrian Yazidi girl marches with pictures during a demonstration in the northeastern town of Amude, about 28 kilometers west of Qamishli near the Syrian-Turkish border, on August 3, 2018, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Islamic State (IS) group's attacks in the Sinjar mountains in Iraq's Yazidi heartland. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
August 4, 2019, 1:00 am
Five years on, remnants of Yazidi community remember brutal IS onslaught
Iraq-based minority, exiled from their ancestral heartland, still reeling from the slaughter and enslavement of thousands by Islamic State terrorists
By Sofia Nitti
A group of Yazidis from Iraq (with their backs to the camera) together with Israeli trainers who gave them a course on medical clowning, June 2018. (Israel's Foreign Ministry)
July 1, 2018, 1:10 pm
Iraqi Yazidis take medical clowning course in Israel
Foreign Ministry, British charity facilitate arrival of group from persecuted community; hope it will help them put smiles on faces of traumatized kids
By Michael Bachner
People look at the damage in the aftermath of an explosion in a rebel-held area of the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on January 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Omar Haj Kadour)
January 8, 2018, 2:39 pm
21 civilians, including 8 kids, killed in bombardment of Syria’s Idlib
Regime and Russian airstrikes target rebel positions in last province still resisting government control
By Agencies
Skulls remain at the site of a purported mass grave in the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq after it was retaken from Islamic State militants, November 22, 2015. (AP via AP video/File)
November 22, 2017, 2:50 pm
Mass grave of Yazidi murdered by Islamic State found, Iraqi officials say
Bodies of 73 men, women and children discovered in Sinjar region, believed victims of jihadists’ brutal rule
By AFP
Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)
July 25, 2017, 9:26 pm
At Yad Vashem, Yazidi activists seek to learn how to record their genocide
With 3,000 Yazidi women still in IS captivity and hundreds of thousands displaced, survivors tour Holocaust memorial with sights set on their own commemoration
By Marissa Newman
Yazidi Kurdish women chant slogans during a protest against the Islamic State group's invasion of Sinjar city, in Dohuk, Iraq, August 3, 2015. (AP/Seivan M. Salem)
December 21, 2016, 6:42 pm
Yazidi victims of IS abuse get help from Israel aid group
As part of IsraAID mission, Israeli sent to Iraqi Kurdistan to work with women survivors of torture and sexual violence at hands of Islamic State militants
By Emily Rose
Skulls remain at the site of a purported mass grave in the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq after it was retaken from Islamic State militants, November 22, 2015. (AP via AP video/File)
November 27, 2016, 9:11 pm
Two Yazidi mass graves found near Iraq’s Sinjar
Nine bodies uncovered at each site in northern region, set 150 meters apart
By AFP
A displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State (IS) group jihadists and peshmerga fighters in the northern town of Sinjar, stands at a camp for internally displaced persons in the Sharia area, some 15 kilometers from the city of Dohuk, on November 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED)
November 23, 2016, 10:50 pm
Ex-journalist is lonely lifeline for Yazidis sold into sex slavery
Nareen Shammo quit her TV job to rescue her kinswomen from torture, rape and death at the hands of Islamic State
By Emily Rose
French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy in Paris, January 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joel Saget)
May 17, 2016, 4:11 am
Jewish thinker Bernard-Henri Levy goes to war against IS
French philosopher’s late Cannes film festival entry provides a ‘close-up look’ at the Kurds’ battle against Islamic State in Iraq
By Fiachra GIBBONS
Iraqi Kurdish forces take part in an operation backed by US-led strikes in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on November 12, 2015, to retake the town from the Islamic State group and cut a key supply line to Syria. (AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED)
March 14, 2016, 4:52 pm
Palestinian-American member of IS surrenders to Iraqi Kurds
Jihadi, identified as Virginia native Mohammed Jamal Amin, gives himself up after wandering into Peshmerga hands
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of Kurdish security forces in a tunnel complex under the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq, which was used by Islamic State fighters to move undetected and avoid coalition airstrikes before the town was retaken. (AP via AP video)
From the WebJanuary 7, 2016, 12:20 am
The Islamic State’s underground lair
Hundreds of tunnels found in Sinjar, filled with food, medical supplies, blankets, copies of the Koran, Foreign Affairs reports
Skulls remain at the site of a purported mass grave in the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq after it was retaken from Islamic State militants, November 22, 2015. (AP via AP video/File)
November 30, 2015, 6:10 am
Iraqis find 3 more mass graves in formerly IS-held Sinjar
Discovery brings number of burial sites in area to 5 and total number of bodies uncovered to 200-300
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Balint Szlanko
Illustrative photo of Kurdish security forces in a tunnel complex under the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq, which was used by Islamic State fighters to move undetected and avoid coalition airstrikes before the town was retaken. (AP via AP video)
November 28, 2015, 5:27 pm
Bomb-rigged mass grave of IS victims found in Iraq
Site in Sinjar is estimated to hold the remains of 123 people, probably members of Yazidi community
By AFP
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