The Latest Breaking News from Sinjar

Iraq’s ghost villages: Islamic State drove people away – now a new enemy is preventing their return

Nearly a decade after fighting ended in northern Iraq, the climate crisis has brought extreme heat and a water shortage, making life almost impossible

The Guardian - UK · Aug 18

‘We ran from monsters’: Once welcomed by Germany after IS genocide, Yazidis are now deported to a life of limbo in refugee camps

The sun burns down on a small village less than 20 miles north-east of Mosul, Iraq. Milisia, 14, and her sister Madlin, 13, greet me at the gate in flawless, almost accent-free German. They lead me into the yard of a grey, rectangular, one-story building where their family rents a…

The Conversation · Jan 23

Uncovering Iraq’s mass graves: the painstaking search for missing loved ones – photo essay

The country has as many as one million missing people after decades of conflict. Forensic teams face huge challenges to document human remains as families wait in hope of closure

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025

The Yezidi genocide devastated Iraq’s community 10 years ago − but the roots of the prejudice that fueled it were much deeper

On the morning of Aug. 3, 2014, the Islamic State group launched a ruthless and swift campaign in Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq. The target was Yezidis: a monotheistic religious group whose members have long been persecuted.

The Conversation · Jul 22, 2024

Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors struggle to rebuild lives

NGOs report that 200,000 are displaced in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, while thousands trapped in legal limbo in Europe.

Al Jazeera · May 31, 2024

Nine years after the Yazidi genocide, what’s next for survivors?

The implementation of a transitional justice framework in Iraq could address atrocities committed by ISIL.

Al Jazeera · Aug 3, 2023

UK recognises ‘acts of genocide’ against Yazidis by ISIL

In the Sinjar region of Iraq in 2014, ISIL fighters systematically killed and enslaved thousands of men and women.

Al Jazeera · Aug 1, 2023

UN complaint lodged over Turkish airstrikes on hospital in Iraq

Survivors and witnesses bring case to human rights council over 2021 attack killing eight people

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023

Turkish drone strike kills three YBS fighters in Iraq - Kurdish counter-terrorism service

A Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq on Tuesday killed three fighters from the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said.

Reuters · May 23, 2023

Returning to Sinjar: In Iraq, displaced Yazidis struggle to go home

On May 16, Iraq's Sinjar province saw deadly violence. The positions of a Yazidi armed group affiliated with the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, were targeted by drone strikes attributed to Turkey. Security tensions are complicating the return to the province of Yazidis in exile, after a genocide perpetrated against…

France 24 · May 22, 2023