August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s marginalized communities, including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims, ...

"The Nineveh Plains represent the heart of the Syriac people's historical memory and stand as a living testament to ...

In 2014, ISIS seized control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and imposed a brutal extremist regime. Christians were ...

"The Yazidis of Mountain Shingal are terrified. They feel threatened and unsafe. They thought ISIS days were almost done and they can return to their villages and towns, but now they face a bigger ...

The Yazidis are hardly a household name for most Americans, but they have lived in the same region in northern Iraq for centuries, with communities in Syria and Turkey as well.

Yazidis believe continual rebirth leads to purification, and therefore the sect does not believe in hell. The tomb of Sheikh Adi, in the town of Lalesh north of Mosul, Iraq, is a Yazidi shrine and ...

The Yazidis who remained in Iraq, including Gares and his lifelong friend Sulaiman Murad, joined U.S. forces following the 2003 invasion to help overthrow Hussein’s Ba'athist regime.

The Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, have been targeted by the Islamic army for being what they call "devil worshipers" and were threatened with execution if they didn't agree to convert to ...

At one of the shrines on Mount Sinjar, where Yazidis fled to escape ISIS five years ago, Berfe Khalaf, 26, has come with her two small children after arriving back from Syria two days before.

For their help, the U.S. issued them special immigrant visas, allowing thousands of Yazidis to relocate to cities like Lincoln -- which contains the highest concentration of the religious minority ...

Most are Yazidis, who had managed to make it down from the mountains and into Syria, about 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) away. Arab neighbors joined ISIS slaughter, escaped Yazidi says ...