DOHUK – Members of Iraqi security forces and displaced people living in camps, including minority Yazidis, cast their ballots Sunday in early voting ahead of this week's parliamentary election in Iraq ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — The fate of nearly 3,000 Yazidis taken captive by the Islamic State group in Iraq remains unknown, officials from Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government announced earlier this month.

Mistakes in Iraq led to genocide of Christians and Yazidis. Don’t let it happen again.

Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of fasting. During my ethnographic ...

The FINANCIAL — One of the groups caught in the path of Sunni militants fighting under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are the Yazidis, members of a minority religious group ...

FILE - Relatives cry near the remains of people from the minority Yazidi who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave in Sinjar, during a funeral ceremony in ...

Seven years ago, a brutal attack by ISIS forced hundreds of thousands of Yazidis to flee their homes in northern Iraq. Many were eventually imprisoned, killed or sold into slavery. Now, despite ISIS’s ...

Iraqi soldiers stand on a truck ion a base in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Iraq's military launched an offensive in Sinjar district on Sunday to clear out armed elements of the YBS, a local ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Houman Oliaei, Brandeis University (THE CONVERSATION) Each year in the second week of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious ...