Yazidis

February 10, 2022

Adrift after enslavement, Yazidi teen says she can’t go home

BARZAN, Syria (AP) — Roza Barakat’s tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive. She…

May 11, 2021

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of a UN team investigating atrocities in Iraq announced Monday it has found “clear…

March 28, 2021

In a landmark decision this month, Iraq’s parliament passed the Yazidi Female Survivors Law, recognizing the atrocities committed by the…

December 16, 2020

DEBAJA, Iraq (AP) — After living in a camp for three years, 70-year-old Merhi Hamed Abdullah returned to his village…

October 20, 2020

BASHIQA, Iraq (Reuters) – Saad Hussein, a 42-year-old Yazidi Iraqi, is one of the last in the northern region of…

October 29, 2019

PARIS (AP) — For Georges Salines, whose 28-year-old daughter Lola was killed when Islamic extremists went on a bloody rampage…

July 14, 2019

Freed after years in jihadist captivity, Jihan faced an agonizing ultimatum: abandon her three small children fathered by an Islamic…

May 20, 2019

Pope Francis on Saturday urged journalists to desist from publishing fake news, saying it could cause harm, and instead “take…

April 26, 2019

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The children of Yazidi women raped by Islamic State men will be welcomed into the minority…

October 26, 2018

PARIS (AP) — Foreign fighters, including many Europeans, took a leading role in carrying out the Islamic State group’s…