Iraq's National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji met with Yazidi leader Mir Hazim Tahsin Beg on Wednesday, discussing efforts ...

ISIS and other Islamist extremists are waging genocide, the most egregious of all human-rights atrocities, against Christians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, and other defenseless religious minorities ...

Nora’s testimony was instrumental in securing their convictions. “This is possible, it’s been done,” says Nobel Peace ...

Fear grows over the fate of approximately 500,000 Kurds and 5,000 Yazidis trapped in the Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo ...

Nearly 2,600 Yazidis remain missing a decade after Islamic State rampaged through their Iraqi heartland. Most are feared dead ...

For the first time in nearly four decades, Iraq will this week conduct a nationwide census, a task that promises to deliver ...

previously featured in chilling ISIS recruitment video Appeared with friend Reyaad Khan attempting to recruit Western Muslims 'Kuffar [non-believers] are afraid we will slaughter Yazidis ...

Daesh specifically targeted religious minorities, Yazidis and Christians, for destruction in an attempt to annihilate religious pluralism and establish a purely Islamic region, in accordance with ...

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Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority, most of whom live in northern Iraq. They faced harsh persecution at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group, who took over the region in 2014 and ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The self-styled Islamic State’s (IS) violence against the Yazidis - a religious community with historical roots in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq - in the summer of 2014 has been unprecedented even ...