Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq's Sinjar District will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the rise and ...

Yazidis (Yezidis) are an endogamous minority community who speak Kurmanji and are indigenous to Kurdistan – a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a ...

Baghdad’s push to bring armed groups under state control is gaining traction with the YBS, unlike with Iraq’s more powerful, ...

Over the last week, the plight of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority has captured the world's attention. Thousands of Yazidis fleeing violent Sunni militants called Islamic State have been stranded on a ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — The fate of nearly 3,000 Yazidis taken captive by the Islamic State group in Iraq remains unknown, officials from Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government announced earlier this month.

The video examines the Yazidis, an ethno-religious community indigenous to Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, Syria and Turkey ...

On February 6, the remains of 104 Yazidis killed in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014 were brought home and laid to rest in the village of Kojo. These Yazidis were killed six years ago ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At least 9,900 of Iraq's Yazidis were killed or kidnapped in just days in an Islamic State attack in 2014, according to the first study to document the number of ...

Seven years after they were captured by the Islamic State, some members of the Iraqi religious minority are still being held captive by fighters in Syria. Others are with families of ISIS militants.

LIKE A PICTURE of purity in white robes, white shoes and a white turban, Ali Iliyas emerged from a candle-lit sanctum. He had just been inaugurated as the new Baba Sheikh, or spiritual leader of the ...