Yazidi refugees stand behind fences as they wait for the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie at a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern ...

Many Yazidis in Syria remain displaced in refugee camps, and with ongoing conflict, they have even fewer options for return or resettlement. Food shortages, medical crises and lack of humanitarian ...

Francesco Lastrucci A group of Yazidi refugees clean the holy land, Lalish. The Yazidi religion is older than Islam and Christianity, but combines parts of Abrahamic faiths and Zoroastrianism.

The Roman Catholic Church's 266th pope breathed new and inspiring life into the faith community he led; he did so by using ...

Francis had endorsed the use of force to protect Iraq’s religious minorities against Islamic State militants and demanded international protection of the region’s Yazidi refugees. Visiting Iraq in ...

I am responding to Margaret Robbin’s March 7 letter in the Reformer, in which she discredits the words of Dr. Qanta Ahmed, an author, women's rights activist, journalist, and public ...

“But actually the Yazidi voice became very powerful ... was moved to tears when she met refugees fleeing to Chad to escape the civil war in Sudan, after hearing their experiences of sexual ...

In the wind-swept town of Khanke in northern Iraq, a fragile tree stands as a quiet symbol of resilience. Its slender trunk ...

Deq (Arabic: دەق) or xal (Kurdish: خاڵ) are the Arabic and Kurdish words for tattoo respectively. Traditional Deq (tattoo) or ...

A 2022 report by the Norwegian Refugee Council highlights that Iraq ... discarded plastic into artistic creations inspired by Yazidi culture. Image by Robert Bociaga. Zozan Basin Shekho (left ...