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The Yazidis, who Britain on Tuesday officially acknowledged as victims of “acts of genocide” by the Islamic State (IS), are a Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious minority...
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The British government on Tuesday officially acknowledged that the Islamic State group committed “acts of genocide” against the Yazidi people in 2014. The Yazidis...
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After paying nearly $100,000 in ransoms to free 10 family members, Khaled Taalou, a member of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, is still working to free...
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One by one, members of Iraq’s minority Yazidi community light oil lamps to mark their New Year at a sacred shrine, but for Omar...
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A Frankfurt court handed a life sentence to an Iraqi man who joined the Islamic State group for genocide against the Yazidi minority.
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Iraq’s Yazidi minority paid its last respects to its spiritual leader on Friday as tributes poured in for the cleric, who guided his flock...
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Yazidis, an ancient ethnic group much persecuted for their faith, now have a massive new temple in Armenia to help preserve their religion and...
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Iraq’s Yazidi minority held its summer festival on the weekend, five years after jihadists seized their ancestral heartland of Sinjar, in a brutal assault...
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A UN team investigating the massacre of Iraq’s Yazidi minority and other atrocities has excavated 12 mass graves and is collecting witness accounts that...
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Iraqi authorities on Friday opened a first mass grave containing victims of the Islamic State group in the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar, where jihadists...