Yazidis

Yazidi fighters disarm in Iraq's Sinjar after a decade of division - what comes next? - analysis

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

An abandoned improvised mortar system is seen on the side of a road in Sinjar, Iraq, with a Kurdish flag flying in the background, January 26, 2016
A Yazidi woman holds a flame during the Charshama Sor Red New Year ceremony at the Lalish temple in Iraq in April. For a community repeatedly driven from its ancestral homes and subjected to forced conversions, religious tradition has become an enduring expression of survival and continuity.

From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.

Thousands of ISIS-linked women, children still held in Syria’s camps amid escape efforts - analysis

 Members of Syrian security forces ride on a back of a truck after Syrian troops entered the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday following two days of clashes, in Sweida, Syria July 15, 2025.

Israel's decisive Syria strikes highlight need for intervention in preventing genocides - analysis


My Word: Jihadi brides and forgotten victims

Compassion should not override common sense.

Yazidi women attend a ceremony on International Women Day, March 8, at Lilash Temple in Iraqi Kurdistan to commemorate female ISIS victims.

Yazidis mourn 2014 genocide and 2007 terror attack anniversaries

The latter was among the world's worst terror attacks in decades. ISIS grew out of the extremism of the years 2005-09, borrowing from Al Qaeda ideology and perfecting it.

A YAZIDI man pulls rubble from his house in Sinjar that ISIS terrorists destroyed in February.

Iraq still struggling with helping Yazidis five years after genocide

Yazidi activists, such as Nadia Murad, who won a Nobel Peace Prize, have continually called on the international community and US President Donald Trump to help.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Yazidi activist Nadia Murad talks to people during her visit to Sinjar, Iraq December 14, 2018.

Think ISIS is gone, Mr. Trump? Think again

Mr. Trump should be careful with his words. The assumption that the Islamic State has vanished from the region is a dangerous one to make.

U.S. President Donald Trump

An endless nightmare

There are thousands of Yazidis today who remain haunted by memories of themselves or loved ones being kidnapped, raped and abused.

A YAZIDI man pulls rubble from his house in Sinjar that ISIS terrorists destroyed in February.

Will meeting between Trump and Murad help Yazidis who survived ISIS?

Murad met Trump along with other survivors of religious discrimination, part of a larger State Department agenda that has sought to highlight religious freedom and persecution on the basis of faith.

Nadia Murad Basee Taha adresses the European Parliament during an award ceremony for the 2016 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, December 13, 2016

Jewish experience of genocide helps heal victims of ISIS

Lamya Aji Bashar Taha: What I saw at Yad Vashem is similar to what happened to us.

Genocide researcher  Frishta Kewe and survivor Lamya Aji Bashar Taha in Jerusalem last week

Children of Yazidi women raped by ISIS fighters not recognized

Yazidis refuse to recognize Islamic State-fathered children.

Yazidi refugees flee for their lives from Islamic State forces near the Syrian border, August 11.

Yazidi survivors of ISIS rape have new hope after community ruling

For the children of survivors of ISIS rape and genocide, a long road home may be smoother - but hurdles remain in Iraq and Syria.

CHILDREN FROM THE Yazidi community, who were recently freed after being captured by Islamic State fighters, ride on a back of a truck near Baghouz, Syria, earlier this week

9,000 ISIS fighters and 60,000 family members held in Syria - report

Those at the camp, who are mostly women and children, are viewed as ISIS “affiliates.”

WOMEN AND their families surrender in the last ISIS-held area in Syria last month