ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - First Kurdistan National Prayer Breakfast was held in Erbil earlier this week. Dozens of religious ...

previously featured in chilling ISIS recruitment video Appeared with friend Reyaad Khan attempting to recruit Western Muslims 'Kuffar [non-believers] are afraid we will slaughter Yazidis ...

The peaceful life of the schoolgirl, who had grown up in a loving family as part of the Yazidi community in Sinjar, northern Iraq, was to brutally change on that day in 2014 - as they learned ISIS ...

But the persecution of the Yazidis, including the buying and selling of women and girls, is a particular horror that has influenced my reporting, and recognition of similar evils, ever since.

Each year, Yazidis from around the world return to the Kurdistan Region to celebrate Red Wednesday at the holy Lalish Temple, where they offer prayers and light fires, a deeply rooted symbol in ...

The militants also abducted 6,417 Yazidi women and men, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labour, Mr Qaidi said. Of those, only 3,585 were rescued: 1,211 women, 339 men ...

The Kurdistan Region has embraced a genuinely pluralistic approach—bringing together Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, Jews, ...

In 2014, Islamic State group fighters carried out a series of atrocities against Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority whose religion incorporates Zoroastrian, Christian, Manichean, Jewish and Muslim ...

After watching “her mother and brothers be marched off to their death,” Murad was taken captive and “traded from one ISIS fighter to another; forced to pray; forced to dress up and put make ...

This documentation project employed rigorous demographic methods and individual-level data in order to identify every Yazidi victim of ISIS, with categories of victims defined according to the crime(s ...

The Three Day Fast in December is one all Yazidis are expected to observe. Fasting occurs from dawn until sunset, and the nights are given to feasting, merry making and some prayer. As for the ...