"The Nineveh Plains represent the heart of the Syriac people's historical memory and stand as a living testament to ...

Mount Sinjar rises from the arid plains of northwestern Iraq like a grassy sentinel — ancient, scarred, and unyielding. Today ...

The genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq’s Sinjar District will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the rise and “fall” of ISIS. It is hard to fathom the pain, suffering, and ...

President Masoud Barzani marks the Sinjar anniversary by calling the genocide an extension of catastrophes against Kurds. He ...

World Yazidis seek rescue of women and children enslaved, married off to ISIS By Hollie McKay , Fox News Published May 10, 2018 5:45pm EDT | Updated May 11, 2018 12:39pm EDT ...

Although Yazidis are Iraqi citizens, the Iraqi government in Baghdad has never participated in their rescue, claiming it has neither the funds nor the ability. Until about two years ago, Mr. Shrim ...

The Yazidis, who follow a monotheistic religion, in which the Peacock Angel is chief among seven divine beings, and have been persecuted periodically in the past, suffered gravely. From 2014 to ...

The Yazidis began "using Islamic words and concepts to refer to their ancient beliefs," Kreyenbroek said. They also practice rites like baptism in water, which may or may not be drawn from ...

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.

At one of the shrines on Mount Sinjar, where Yazidis fled to escape ISIS five years ago, Berfe Khalaf, 26, has come with her two small children after arriving back from Syria two days before.

The Yazidis are an ancient people who have long been persecuted. They settled in the area around Sinjar in the 12th century, near the mountain that was believed to be where Noah's ark rested after ...

Yazidis are represented in the Armenian parliament. Canada has also helped, offering itself as a haven for Yazidi women and girls since 2017. At least 1,200 have been resettled as of June 2019.