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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

Yazidi

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)
Israel rescues Yazidi woman from Gaza after her kidnapping by ISIS at age 11
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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
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
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
Nadia Murad, an Iraq Yazidi once held captive by the Islamic State, speaks during a religious freedom summit at the US Department of State on July 16, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
July 20, 2019, 11:53 pm
‘You had the Nobel Prize?’ Trump asks Yazidi activist, ex-IS captive Nadia Murad
In exchange at Oval Office this week, president appears unfamiliar with work of rape and persecution survivor
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An Iraqi Yazidi survivor displays a tattoo bearing the date fighters from the Islamic State group entered the village of Sinjar, at her tent in the Khonke camp for displaced persons in northwestern Iraq on June 24, 2019. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP)
July 14, 2019, 10:49 pm
In agony, Yazidi women torn between Islamic State kids and return home
Those who survived captivity at hands of jihadists are accepted back into the community, but their children, born of IS fighters from forced marriages, are not
By Maya Gebeily
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