Tag: Yazidi
Mass grave found in last Islamic State bastion
A mass grave containing the bodies of dozens of people who may be Yazidis enslaved by Islamic State has been found in territory recently...
New Rwanda genocide film should spur action on IS crimes –...
Islamic State militants must be brought to justice for the sexual enslavement of Yazidis in Iraq, a prominent American lawyer said ahead...
Thousands of Yazidis missing, captive, two years after start of ‘genocide’...
Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to...
Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis
Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious community of 400,000 people through killings,...
Islamic State committed genocide against Christians, Shi’ites – U.S.
Islamic State has committed genocide against Christians, Yazidis and Shi'ite Muslims, the United States said on Thursday, a finding U.S. officials hope...
Mass Yazidi grave discovered after Iraq’s Sinjar taken from IS
A mass grave believed to contain the remains of more than 70 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority was discovered east of Sinjar...
Islamic State releases more than 200 captive Yazidis in Iraq
More than 200 elderly and infirm Yazidis were freed on Wednesday by Islamic State militants who had been holding them captive since...
Iraqi Yazidis take revenge as Islamic State atrocities unearthed
Some members of Iraq's Yazidi minority are turning on their Arab neighbours, staging deadly reprisals against Sunni villagers they believe collaborated in...
Islamic State militants seize Iraq village, press assault on Yazidis
Islamic State wrested a Sunni Muslim village in western Iraq on Thursday from tribal defenders who put up weeks of fierce resistance,...
Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in...
The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what...
