A total of 81 mass graves of Yazidis have been found in Sinjar district in northern Iraq since 2014, according to a Kurdish official on Thursday. Baravan Hamdi, Deputy Minister of the Martyrs in ...

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The Islamic State trapped the Yazidis, a religious minority, on Mt. Sinjar in Northern Iraq last summer, killing men, women, and children. Now, back at the base of the mountain, these Yazidi ...

So far, 93 mass graves of Yazidis killed between 2014 and 2017 have been exhumed in Sinjar, but there are still dozens more. The remains of 274 Yazidis – 237 men and 37 women – have been ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - More than 90 Yazidi families have returned to Shingal (Sinjar), their homeland in northern Iraq, the country’s migration ministry announced on ...

Nestled in the mountains of Duhok province’s Shekhan district, Lalish Temple, the holiest site in the Yazidi faith, hosted ...

In 2014, the Islamic State captured the Sinjar region, a Yazidi refuge in Northern Iraq, and began massacring and enslaving residents. As a non-Muslim minority group, the Islamic State viewed ...

In August 2014, ISIS terrorists committed a genocide in the Sinjar area of Iraq, home to the Yazidi community. More than 3,000 Yazidis were killed, and over 6,800 were abducted during that time ...

They say they have broken the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis and other displaced Iraqis have been trapped since August. IS controls a swathe of Iraq and Syria, where it has ...

(Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images) Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images Ten years have passed since the I-S-group attacked Sinjar in northern Iraq, killing and enslaving thousands of Yazidis.

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In 2014, he was forced to flee his home in the town of Sinjar, in the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan. His family was among thousands of Yazidis who were forced to flee the Islamic State ...