The passage of Iraq’s General Amnesty Bill has raised fears among Yazidis that it could lead to the release of individuals implicated in mass killings and crimes against their community.

ISIS wrecked 80 percent of public infrastructure and 70 percent of civilian homes in Sinjar City and surrounding areas.

Authorities confirmed that two convoys will transport the remains—one carrying the 21 victims from Hammam Alil and the other ...

A Yazidi woman who survived rape and enslavement by Islamic State and was rescued from Gaza last October in a U.S.-led ...

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people ...

In August 2024, the world marked a decade since the attack on Sinjar, Iraq, and the genocide against its indigenous population. On August 3, 2014, Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS ...

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A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first ...

Scenes from the now destroyed city of Sinjar, in Iraq. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images) Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images Ten years have passed since the I-S-group attacked Sinjar in northern ...

In 2014, he was forced to flee his home in the town of Sinjar, in the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan. His family was among thousands of Yazidis who were forced to flee the Islamic State ...

The “blood fraternity” between the PKK and Shiite factions in the town of Sinjar may however prove to be an obstacle in Türkiye's new plan. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke last ...

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