Iraqi officials are excavating a mass grave near Mosul, believed to contain thousands of bodies, including those of Iraqi ...

Germany allocated €15 million (around $17.5 million) in 2024 to support reconstruction projects in the Yazidi heartland of ...

The genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq’s Sinjar District will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the rise and “fall” of ISIS. It is hard to fathom the pain, suffering, and ...

Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved ...

Yazidis pray to God facing the sun and worship his seven angels — the most important of which is Melek Taus, or Peacock Angel. The Yazidi community in Iraq comprised some 550,000 people before ...

The Yazidis’ situation had deteriorated under Saddam Hussein, whose “Arabization” campaigns in the 1980s – which targeted Iraqi Kurds – resulted in the internal displacement and ...

"The Nineveh Plains represent the heart of the Syriac people's historical memory and stand as a living testament to ...

Yazidis who sought refuge in Germany after surviving atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) fear they could be ...

More than 3,000 Yazidis still missing after collapse of Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate Fleeing Yazidis cross the border from Iraqi into Syria in 2014 after their villages were attacked by ...

Yazidis are a tiny religious minority largely from northern Iraq. Over the years, the Yazidi community in Lincoln has grown to about 3,000 people, making it the largest in the United States.

Many Yazidis want other countries to help rebuild Sinjar and guarantee their protection. But they are not holding their breath. They cite 74 massacres in their history—and expect to keep counting.

Although Yazidis are Iraqi citizens, the Iraqi government in Baghdad has never participated in their rescue, claiming it has neither the funds nor the ability. Until about two years ago, Mr. Shrim ...