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


MK Svetlova in 'Post': Failing to recognize Yazidi genocide is like world ignoring Holocaust

Now try to answer this question: Should Israel, the state that rose from the ashes of Holocaust recognize and acknowledge a genocide when it happens to other people?

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

ANALYSIS: Nobel Peace Prize shines light on foible amid plaudits

West hands out awards, but does little to actually alleviate the plight of those it highlights.

Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad speaks to members of the UN Security Council

Nadia Murad’s Nobel Prize and the legacy of ISIS crimes

“Many Yazidis will look upon this prize and think of family members that were lost, are still unaccounted for and of the fate of 1,300 women and children, which remain in captivity.”

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

Former Yazidi sex slave wins Nobel Prize for fight to end sexual war crimes

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the Islamic State in Iraq.

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

British anti-ISIS fighter sentenced in Turkey for “terrorism”

UK citizens protested in London in solidarity with former soldier that joined Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State.

Destroyed buildings are seen in the city of Sinjar, Iraq November 24, 2017. Picture taken November 24, 2017

Yazidi genocide survivors say ISIS supporters returning to northern Iraq

Locals say Baghdad is not ensuring the protection of survivors.

Youth play next to a destroyed car in a village near Rabia on the road to Sinjar in 2015

Yazidi victims of ISIS fear for lives in Germany due to ISIS presence

The harrowing story is the most shocking case of a former survivor of the ISIS genocide in Iraq, that led to the ethnic cleansing of more than 400,000 Yazidis.

Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad speaks to members of the UN Security Council

Yazidi leader killed in air strike by Turkey four years after genocide

Ankara: He was one of most wanted PKK terrorists

The entrance to Sinjar City, northern Iraq

After ISIS: How they won even though they were defeated

In that sense, ISIS won. It won in the West because it was allowed to percolate up and then quietly go away without any real desire to confront it.

A couple watches the fighting in Syria from Tel Saqi. The Syrian regime and its Russian backers launched numerous artillery and air strikes on ISIS positions 2018

Social media campaign aims for awareness on 4th anniversary of Yazidi genocide

Activists on social media hope to raise awareness for thousands of missing people kidnapped by ISIS in 2014, hold events around the world and online

A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who was kidnapped by Islamic State militants of Tal Afar but managed to flee, reacts in Duhok province, northern Iraq, November 24, 2016.