Yazidis

Thousands of ISIS-linked women, children still held in Syria’s camps amid escape efforts - analysis

While some of them have been repatriated over the last six years, many of them remain.

 An ISIS member carries an Islamic State flag in Syria.
 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

Displaced Yazidi women protest outside the headquarters of the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), north of Baghdad, in 2015.

Prosecutors seek 8 years for Dutch woman accused of keeping Yazidi slaves in Syria


Yazidis in Iraq displaced again, international community ignores fighting

The reality is that average people are suffering because the international community has not invested in the area. There is a lack of security.

Displaced Yazidis fleeing ISIS in Sinjar walk toward the Syrian border in August 2014

Yazidi Islamic State survivor latest victim of 'cancel culture' -opinion

This past week, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad was the latest victim of the West’s cancel culture, as she was disinvited from a book event by Canada’s Toronto District School Board.

Displaced Yazidi women protest outside the headquarters of the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), north of Baghdad, in 2015.

Migrants brave dangers to return to Kurdistan from Belarus - analysis

20,000 people are in Belarus and became stuck trying to cross into Poland and move to Europe. Some of them are Kurds and also Yazidi survivors of genocide.

Migrants use wire cutters to cut the barbed wire as they try to cross the Belarus/Poland border near Kuznica Bialostocka, Poland, in this video-grab released by the Polish Defence Ministry, November 8, 2021.

Belarus is using refugees for politics. Turkey did the same thing - analysis

Where are the Western asylum-seeking policies set up to help genocide survivors? For Yazidis who suffered genocide in 2014, there is no end in sight, whether in Belarus or elsewhere. 

 Migrants gather near a barbed wire fence in an attempt to cross the border with Poland in the Grodno region, Belarus November 8, 2021.

Dr. Nemam Ghafouri, activist who helped Yazidis in Iraq, Syria passes away

Everyone knew her. News of her death has case a shadow over many who worked quietly raising awareness about suffering of minorities across northern Iraq and Syria.

Dr. Nemam Ghafouri delivering humanitarian aid.

Yazidis mourn genocide victims after bodies identified

It is believed almost 3,000 Yazidis are still missing.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Yazidi activist Nadia Murad talks to people during her visit to Sinjar, Iraq December 14, 2018.

On Yazidi genocide anniversary, failure to support survivors decried

It has been six years since the genocide began, but little has been done for the hundreds of thousands of survivors.

A general view of Sharya camp near Dohuk, Iraq July 3, 2020

The world is continuing to ignore the sufferings of the Yazidis

No government is willing to step forward to help them rebuild their destroyed villages, not even their own governments.

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

Why hasn’t Twitter flagged 'kuffar' as a term of abuse

However, the website continues to host thousands of tweets that use the word “kuffar” or “unbeliever” as a form of abuse.

A Jordanian Imam reads the Koran in an empty mosque during Ramadan as prayers by worshipers are suspended due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. Amman, Jordan, April 26, 2020.

Eastern Syria defeated ISIS but has been given no coronavirus test kits

The region lacks an ability to test for coronavirus and does not have the hospital capacity to deal with a new crisis.

A health worker tests a man as part of security measures to avoid the spread of coronavirus, at the Bab el-Salam border crossing between the Syrian town of Azaz and the Turkish town of Kilis, seen from Syria