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


Iraq still struggling with helping Yazidis five years after genocide

Yazidi activists, such as Nadia Murad, who won a Nobel Peace Prize, have continually called on the international community and US President Donald Trump to help.

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

Think ISIS is gone, Mr. Trump? Think again

Mr. Trump should be careful with his words. The assumption that the Islamic State has vanished from the region is a dangerous one to make.

U.S. President Donald Trump

An endless nightmare

There are thousands of Yazidis today who remain haunted by memories of themselves or loved ones being kidnapped, raped and abused.

A YAZIDI man pulls rubble from his house in Sinjar that ISIS terrorists destroyed in February.

Will meeting between Trump and Murad help Yazidis who survived ISIS?

Murad met Trump along with other survivors of religious discrimination, part of a larger State Department agenda that has sought to highlight religious freedom and persecution on the basis of faith.

Nadia Murad Basee Taha adresses the European Parliament during an award ceremony for the 2016 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, December 13, 2016

Jewish experience of genocide helps heal victims of ISIS

Lamya Aji Bashar Taha: What I saw at Yad Vashem is similar to what happened to us.

Genocide researcher  Frishta Kewe and survivor Lamya Aji Bashar Taha in Jerusalem last week

Children of Yazidi women raped by ISIS fighters not recognized

Yazidis refuse to recognize Islamic State-fathered children.

Yazidi refugees flee for their lives from Islamic State forces near the Syrian border, August 11.

Yazidi survivors of ISIS rape have new hope after community ruling

For the children of survivors of ISIS rape and genocide, a long road home may be smoother - but hurdles remain in Iraq and Syria.

CHILDREN FROM THE Yazidi community, who were recently freed after being captured by Islamic State fighters, ride on a back of a truck near Baghouz, Syria, earlier this week

9,000 ISIS fighters and 60,000 family members held in Syria - report

Those at the camp, who are mostly women and children, are viewed as ISIS “affiliates.”

WOMEN AND their families surrender in the last ISIS-held area in Syria last month

Turkey hopes Iran, Iraq and Syria will help it strangle the PKK

On March 6, Turkey and Iran said they were planning to work more closely to confront the PKK.

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Yazidi and Shi’ite children celebrate freedom from ISIS

Since January, more than 20,000 ISIS supporters have surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces from the last ISIS-held enclave east of the Euphrates river.

DESTROYED BUILDINGS in the city of Sinjar. There has been no reconstruction of Yazidi communities.