Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage
August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s ...
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Racing the Clock to Document ISIS Genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis
Lynsey Addario for The New York Times For the families of nearly 2,700 missing Yazidis, the decision is heartbreaking. For them, each uncovered bone fragment could help solve the mystery what ...
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Iraq’s Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return
Thursday’s announcement came as Yazidis gathered in the village of Kocho in northern Iraq’s Sinjar province on the tenth anniversary of the massacre that killed hundreds there. Displaced ...
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Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes
Some fear that if Yazidis don’t return, the community may lose its identity. “Sinjar is the Yazidi center of gravity,” said Hadi Babasheikh, the brother and office manager of the late ...
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The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the ...
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Iraq's Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return
During their rampage across the wider region of Sinjar — the Yazidi heartland — IS killed and enslaved thousands of Yazidis, whom the Sunni militants consider heretics. To this day ...