Yazidi

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

After a decade of ISIS terrorism on the Yazidis in Iraq, a global network of activists, survivors, and volunteers continue their efforts to locate those still missing.

 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.
A gavel and a block is pictured on the judge's bench in this illustration picture taken in the Sussex County Court of Chancery in Georgetown, Delaware, U.S., June 9, 2021.

Sweden sentences woman to 12 years in prison for genocide, war crimes in Syria

 Rojin Hadid Talal (C), a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority who was captured by the Islamic State militant group as a child, sits with his brother Aydin Hadid Talal (L) and uncle Saeed Talal (R) at their home in Khanke, in Dohuk governorate, Iraq, June 8, 2024.

Iraq's missing Yazidis: Inside the long search for Islamic State captives

 FAWZIA SIDO, then aged nine, was captured with two of her brothers by Islamic State in the summer of 2014, before ending up held prisoner in Gaza. In this illustrative photo, Yazidi women and children rescued from Islamic State wait to board buses bound for Sinjar in Iraq’s Yazidi heartland.

Yazidi woman freed by IDF from Gaza reveals ISIS made them eat babies


Dutch woman on trial accused of enslaving Yazidi women while part of Islamic State

In earlier procedural hearings Aarab's lawyers said she was young and naive and was left in the house with the Yazidi by her then-husband, but did not command the women.

 A 16-year-old east Jerusalem resident is under investigation for attempting to recruit members to ISIS.

Kidnapped Yazidi woman stuck in Gaza for years yearns to be set free

Steve Maman, popularly nicknamed the “Jewish Schindler” for his efforts to rescue and aid thousands of Yazidi refugees, calls on Netanyahu to lend a shoulder and assume responsibility for aiding M.

 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.

Yazidis fear returning to their homeland, 10 years after massacre

However, the presence of an estimated 50,000 Islamic State fighters and their families across the border in Syria in detention centers and camps stokes fears of history repeating itself.

 A general view of the town of Sinjar in Iraq, June 6, 2024.

ISIS has implemented their rule of terror: A report from the Al-Hawl camp in Syria

Little is written today about Sunni Islamist and jihadi organizations in the Middle East, as the contest between Shia Iran with its proxies and Israel is the central strategic process in the region. 

 A REFUGEE COOKS inside a tent in the Al-Hawl refugee camp, in northern Syria, in this file photo.

IS-affiliated woman guilty of 5-Year-old Yazidi girl's death receives 14-year sentence

The defendant and her husband, were both found liable for the girl’s death when evidence showed that the girl had been chained to a tree by the husband and left to die in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

ISIS Warns of new Attacks

Syrian Democratic Forces rescue Yazidi woman held by ISIS during counterinsurgency operation

The woman disclosed that she endured rape and forced marriage to IS fighters before being transported to al-Hol in 2019.

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.

Yazidi women rescued eight years after ISIS kidnapping - analysis

While many Yazidis have been saved, the community continues to live in displaced persons' camps and does not receive much international assistance.

 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.

Yazidis who survived genocide in Iraq flee to Cyprus, en route to Europe

A Yazidi man currently in Cyprus tells ‘The Jerusalem Post’ of his travel, survival and the woes of his community.

 Migrants watch a fire outside Pournara refugee camp during clashes in Kokkinotrimithia on the outskirts of Nicosia, Cyprus October 28, 2022.

German lawmakers recognize Islamic State crimes against Yazidis as genocide

The jihadist group killed thousands of Yazidis, enslaved 7,000 and displaced most of the 550,000-strong community from their ancestral home.

 Iraqi Yazidis attend a ceremony to celebrate the Yazidi New Year at Lalish temple in Shekhan District in Duhok province, Iraq April 19, 2022.

After genocide at hands of ISIS, Yazidis seek help in Cyprus  

According to an activist who works with the Yazidi minority and genocide survivors, a total of eight families arrived in Cyprus several weeks ago.

A girl from the Yazidi sect fleeing the violence in Sinjar rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province, in 2014

Who is the new militant group targeting a Turkish base with drones? - analysis

The creation of a new “group” called Ahrar Sinjar may be an excuse to strike Turkey now, alleging to be responding to other Turkish attacks.

Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) advance towards the city of Al-Qaim, Iraq November 3, 2017