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Attendees at the "Future of Minorities in the Middle East" conference in Tel Aviv hold the Kurdish, Israeli and Druze flags as they speak, on October 27, 2025. (Screenshot: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 28, 2025, 8:39 pm
Seeing Israel as a beacon, regional minorities gather in Tel Aviv to discuss future
Representatives of the Druze, Kurdish, Alawite communities attend conference aimed at forging ties between Israel and historically persecuted Middle Eastern groups
By ToI Staff
Young Kurdish men line up to sign up to join Syrian government's General Security forces at a police station in Afrin, Syria, an area in the country's north from which Kurds were forcibly displaced years ago, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
August 23, 2025, 12:53 pm
Syria security forces’ push to recruit Kurds, religious minorities brings hope, skepticism
Initiative comes after UN-backed commission that investigated sectarian violence recommended authorities increase diversity in security forces to gain trust of communities
By OMAR ALBAM and ABBY SEWELL
This undated file image posted on a militant website on, January 14, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) marching in Syria. (AP)
December 11, 2024, 6:36 pm
Dutch woman gets 10 years in prison for enslaving Yazidi after joining ISIS in Syria
Hasna A. traveled to Syria in 2015 and married Islamic State fighter, made Yazidi woman do household chores and take care of son, was arrested upon repatriation in 2022
By AFP
Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido (R), who was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 and then transferred to Gaza, Oct. 3, 2024, seen back in Iraq after being rescued recently by Israeli security forces. Iraq made no official mention of Israel's role. (Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
October 3, 2024, 4:16 pm
Israel rescues Yazidi woman from Gaza after her kidnapping by ISIS at age 11
Fawzia Amin Sido was sold by the terror group to a Gazan man in 2014; now 21, she has been reunited with her family in Iraq
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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
Mourners prepare to bury the remains of Yazidi victims, who had been massacred six years prior, in a cemetery in Sinjar, Iraq, February 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
August 1, 2023, 4:38 pm
UK recognizes ‘acts of genocide’ by Islamic State against Yazidi people
British government’s decision is the fifth time London has officially acknowledged a genocide
By AFP
Sineor, a 17-month-old Yazidi child who died during an attempt at life-saving surgery in Israel. (Courtesy Shevet Achim)
December 9, 2022, 3:03 pm
Body of Yazidi child who died during surgery refused passage at Ben Gurion
Toddler being taken across land border to Jordan after death in Jerusalem hospital; mother forced to return to Iraq without his remains
By Lazar Berman
Sineor, a 17-month-old Yazidi child who died during an attempt at life-saving surgery in Israel. (Courtesy Shevet Achim)
December 9, 2022, 4:45 am
Body of Yazidi child who died during surgery in Israel stuck at Ben Gurion Airport
Toddler expires in Jerusalem hospital after operation meant to fix congenital heart defect; mother forced to return to Iraq without his remains
By Lazar Berman
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
An Iraqi defendant identified only as Taha al-J., believed to have belonged to the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, hides his face before the start of his trial in which he is accused of genocide and murdering a young Yazidi girl he held as a slave, at the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, April 24, 2020. (Photo by Arne Dedert / POOL / AFP)
November 30, 2021, 2:59 pm
German court convicts ex-IS member of killing Yazidi girl as part of ‘genocide’
Court also hands Taha Al-J. a life sentence, orders him to pay $57,000 to 5-year-old victim’s mother
By AP
Defendant Jennifer W. arrives in a courtroom for her trial in Munich, Germany, Oct. 25, 2021 (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
October 25, 2021, 1:44 pm
German Islamic State woman gets 10 years for war crime death of Yazidi girl
Jennifer Wenisch guilty of crimes against humanity for enslavement, aiding child’s killing, membership of terror group; 5-year-old was chained up outside in Mosul, died of thirst
By Ralf ISERMANN
ISIS fighters parade in commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicles down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, more than two weeks after taking over the country's second largest city, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo)
October 25, 2021, 10:18 am
German woman who joined IS faces verdict over murder of Yazidi girl, 5, in Iraq
Jennifer Wenisch and husband ‘bought’ woman and child as slaves in Mosul; girl was chained up outside and died ‘agonizing death of thirst in the scorching heat,’ say prosecutors
By Femke COLBORNE
Pope Francis is surrounded by religious figures during an interfaith meeting in the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province, on March 6, 2021 (Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)
March 6, 2021, 1:25 pm
Pope asks faith leaders to pray together for peace ‘as children of Abraham’
Pontiff attends interfaith meeting in patriarch’s birthplace Ur as part of trip to an Iraq riven by religious and ethnic divisions, calls for end to conflict in Syria
By Agencies
Karim Khan, the incoming prosecutor at the ICC, pictured in Baghdad, July 27, 2019, when he headed the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Islamic State (SABAH ARAR/AFP)
February 17, 2021, 6:34 am
Israel welcomes ICC prosecutor pick, but no evidence he’ll nix war crimes probe
Karim Khan may shift direction at The Hague, but experts say there’s little to indicate that he will steer clear of inquiries into Israel and US planned by his predecessor
By Lazar Berman
Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14 years old when she became one of thousands of Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by members of Islamic State. (Screengrab)
December 1, 2019, 4:33 pm
Former Yazidi sex slave faints while confronting her IS rapist on Iraqi TV
Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14 when the terror group seized her hometown, killing the males and abducting the girls
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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