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‘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

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

“Happy She’s Free”: Woman Rescued After A Decade In Captivity As A Slave

Kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State group, Fawzia Amin Sido reunited with her family after a decade. The post “Happy She’s Free”: Woman Rescued After A Decade In Captivity As A Slave first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Yazidi woman kidnapped at 11 and held hostage in Gaza by Isis militant for a decade finally rescued

Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, reunites with her family in Iraq following rescue operation facilitated by Israel, the US, and Jordan

The Independent UK

Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide

A decade after thousands were killed or displaced, many in the remaining community are still living in refugee camps

The Guardian - UK

She was taken captive by Isis at age 15. Now she just wants a place to call home

Hilwa* – a young Yazidi woman – was abducted during a massacre by Isis a decade ago. Rachel Hagan speaks to her about her dreams for the future in the camp for displaced people she has spent eight years in

The Independent UK

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Dead or Alive’: Iraq’s Yazidis Anxiously Await ISIS-abducted Relatives

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 other missing relatives kidnapped by ISIS group fighters. Despite his efforts, five more relatives, along with thousands of other Yazidis, remain missing after being abducted by…

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Three killed in Turkish drone strike against YBS fighters in Iraq

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

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Welcomes Baghdad’s Decree to Return Housing, Land to Yezidis in Sinjar

US Ambassador to Iraq Alina Romanowski welcomed on Saturday a joint statement by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani and the UN to return housing, land, and property rights to Yezidis in Sinjar and other areas. The Sinjar district, in the Nineveh governorate, is home to the largest concentration of Yazidis…

Evening Standard

In Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidi girls box their way to a new future after ISIS terror

After the 2014 ISIS genocide which left them reeling from the effects of mass abduction and rape, Yazidi refugee girls are rebuilding their lives with the help of boxing, art and music classes. Emma Loffhagen and Charline Bou Mansour report from Iraqi Kurdistan

France 24

Nobel laureate Nadia Murad: 'Sexual violence does not go away when war is over'

In 2014, Nadia Murad was captured, alongside many other Yazidi women, by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in the Iraqi town of Sinjar. She was held hostage, enslaved, tortured and raped, before escaping to Mosul and making her way to Germany. After sharing the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with…

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Asharq Al-Awsat

2 PKK Members Killed, 1 Injured in Turkish Attack in Sinjar

Two members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed on Sunday and another was seriously injured in a Turkish attack on a car in Sinjar, west of Nineveh governorate in north Iraq. The Counter-Terrorism Group in the Kurdistan Region reported that a Turkish drone targeted a car of PKK-linked…

Al Jazeera

Psychotherapists help Yazidis heal layers of trauma in Iraq

Amid new mental health options in northern Iraq, therapists worry that without continued support, progress will halt.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two Dead, Seven Injured in Turkish Air Strikes Hitting YBS Site in Iraq

At least two people were killed and seven injured in Turkish air strikes targeting the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in Iraq's northern province of Sinjar, security sources said on Wednesday. They said one strike targeted an intelligence headquarters and another hit…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kurdish Official: 10,000 Fled Northern Iraq Fighting

More than 10,000 people have fled fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters affiliated with Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an official from Iraq's Kurdistan region said Thursday. The latest figure is more than double the 4,000 which an official from the region reported on Tuesday had arrived,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraqi Army Reclaims Sinjar from Pro-PKK Groups

The Iraqi military reestablished control of the northwestern region of Sinjar on Tuesday, said the Joint Operations Command (JOC) in a statement. Sinjar had witnessed intense fighting on Monday between the Iraqi army and the Yazidi Resistance Forces (YBS), a group with ties to the Turkish insurgent Kurdistan Worker’s Party…

The Independent UK

Yazidis, displaced again, fear more strife in Iraqi homeland

Internally displaced minority Yazidis say they are reluctant to return to their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq

Asharq Al-Awsat

Thousands Flee after Clashes Erupt in Embattled Iraqi Town

Thousands or people fled a northern Iraqi town amid fierce clashes between the army and an armed faction linked to a Kurdish separatist group, the military and local Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. At least 3,000 people left Sinjar and its surrounding areas, the officials said, and headed farther north…

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