Yazidis

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

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: The Islamic interpretation of the Yazidi faith is what members of ISIS used to justify the enslavement of over 6,000 women and children and the murder of more than 5,000 people.

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.
 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

 Yazidi refugees stand behind fences as they wait for the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie at a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Midyat in Mardin province, Turkey, June 20, 2015.

Where are the missing Yazidis? Thousands still held captive after ISIS attacks


Yazidi women suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder

Although ISIS no longer poses a threat to them, they still feel less safe, and their current living conditions may exacerbate their symptoms.

A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who was kidnapped by Islamic State militants of Tal Afar but managed to flee, reacts in Duhok province, northern Iraq, November 24, 2016.

Un référendum, et après ?

Pour sortir de la crise engendrée par le scrutin sur l’indépendance du Kurdistan, les dirigeants de la région prônent un dialogue avec Bagdad

La citadelle d’Erbil pavoisée le jour du vote

Nationalism, chauvinism and conflict with Kurds undermine post-ISIS Iraq

Yazidi genocide survivor speaks of need to remember women enslaved by terrorists.

Shi'a Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighter looks inside an armored vehicle after liberating the city of Al-Qaim, Iraq

Baghdad-Kurdistan dispute shifts control over Yazidi genocide sites

Iraq has deployed its military to assert control over Mount Sinjar, the site of 40 mass graves from ISIS's genocide of the Yazidis who lived there.

Two photos of mass grave sites near Sinjar in 2015 of Yazidis who were mass murdered by ISIS in the 2014 genocide.

A Yazidi in America

The struggles of Yazidis who survived the genocide against their people know no end.

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

Brainwashed by a cult: French priest offers therapy to Yazidi captives

Nearly 3,000 women and children are believed to remain in Islamic State captivity, even after the militants' retreat in Iraq and Syria.

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate in 2014

Report: Jihadist groups luring recruits with promises of sex slaves

"Modern day slavery may increase as Daesh struggles to sustain its financial reserves," says researcher.

A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who was kidnapped by Islamic State militants of Tal Afar but managed to flee, reacts in Duhok province, northern Iraq, November 24, 2016.

In the span of two weeks: How Iraq’s security forces defeated ISIS in Hawija

The quick defeat of ISIS in one of its last strongholds in Iraq still leaves many disturbing questions in the air.

Kurdish frontline, with Hawija in the distance

The persecuted Yazidis

The Jerusalem Post

Terra Incognita: The 21st century is the century of Islamist religious genocide

The Islamic State has carried out genocides against the Yazidis and Shi'ite Muslims, and has continued to carry out attacks in Europe as well.

A MEMBER of ISIS waves the group’s flag in Raqqa