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


Le visage des victimes

Nadia Murad est une survivante du génocide yazidi. Elle a récemment témoigné de son expérience d'otage de l'Etat islamique

La députée Ksenia Svetlova reçoit à la Knesset Nadia Murad, survivante yazidie venue temoigner

Le viasage des victimes

Nadia Murad est une survivante du génocide yazidi. Elle a récemment témoigné de son expérience d'otage de l'Etat islamique

La députée Ksenia Svetlova reçoit à la Knesset Nadia Murad, survivante yazidie venue temoigner

Iraq is preparing to take Tal Afar, here’s why it matters

Turkish media accuses the US of siding with the “Iran-backed Tal Afar offensive.”

Displaced women and children from the minority Yazidi sect who were kidnapped by Islamic State militants of Tal Afar

Someone to help

When Islamic State targeted Yazidis for genocide in 2014, Israelis such as Lisa Miara, Idan Barir and Ksenia Svetlova stepped forward to raise awareness and say ‘never again’.

Yazidi children play in a playground in the Sinjar region of Iraq

Why has no Islamic State member been charged for the 2014 Yazidi genocide?

“My sister-in-law and nephew were abducted by ISIS, they might tell us any minute that your relative was killed or bombed.”

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

Yazidi genocide survivor: 'Jews are an example for us'

In Israel for the first time, Yazidi genocide survivor Nadia Murad Basee explains why her experience and Jewish suffering during the Holocaust are intertwined.

Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad speaks to members of the UN Security Council

JPost from the frontline: The 9-month battle for the liberation of Mosul

Over nearly a year the 'Jerusalem Post' visited the war-torn Iraqi city three times and came back with dramatic footage.

Mosul