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World - Region
5/23/2023 6:49:45 PM
A Turkish strike in northern Iraq killed three Yazidi militiamen and wounded three others on Tuesday, regional officials said. A local official affiliated with the militia disputed that account, saying none of its fighters were killed, but that a shepherd died in the Turkish drone strike.

World - International
1/19/2023 3:47:15 PM
Germany's lower house of parliament recognized on Thursday the 2014 massacre of Yazidis by Islamic State group jihadists in Iraq as a "genocide", and called for measures to assist the besieged minority.

Multimedia - In Pictures
10/7/2022 4:36:11 PM

World - Region
8/4/2022 3:59:04 PM
Eight years on since the Islamic State jihadist group's massacres of Yazidis, more then 200,000 survivors are still displaced from their homes in Iraq, the United Nations said Thursday.

World - Region
11/30/2021 3:42:46 PM
A Frankfurt court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to an Iraqi man who joined the Islamic State group for genocide against the Yazidi minority, in the first verdict worldwide to use the label.

Opinion -
10/1/2021 1:05:00 PM
Music, art and cultural heritage in general have no value among Islamist sects, be they ISIS fanatics who beheaded Yazidi artists in Iraq and banned music in weddings and other social activities in Yemen, or Muslim Brothers who closed down the Opera House and fired its director when they came to power in Egypt.

Books - Reviews
9/22/2021 12:32:00 PM
The novel narrates a fascinating and painful journey of a Yazidi woman who is held captive by IS, in the north of Iraq. She escapes the clutches of the organisation and is reunited with some family members

Books - Reviews
9/22/2021 12:29:36 PM
In her first novel 'The Bird Tatto,' Iraqi poet, Dunya Mikhail, narrates a fascinating and painful journey of a Yazidi woman who is held captive by IS, in the north of Iraq

World - Region
5/11/2021 12:06:19 PM
He said information from electronic devices that belonged to IS extremists also led UNITAD to open a new investigation `into the development and successful deployment of chemical and biological weapons by ISIL in Iraq

World - Region
2/27/2021 5:28:51 PM
The Islamic State group overran Sinjar in 2014 and pursued a brutal, months-long campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape against Yazidis in what the UN has said could amount to genocide

World - Region
7/27/2019 3:17:29 PM

World - Region
3/1/2019 5:27:59 PM

World - Region
12/10/2018 2:59:50 PM

Egypt - Politics
11/3/2018 7:17:23 PM
Sisi opens conference in 'name of world peace'; Hany Milad Hanna, son of the late Coptic author, calls for respecting religious pluralism; Yazidi activist Nadia Murad decries terrorism

World - Region
10/13/2018 4:30:57 PM
Iraqi Yazidi human-rights activist Nadia Murad was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this week in recognition of her stand against sexual violence, writes Nermeen Al-Mufti in Baghdad

World - International
10/5/2018 4:04:11 PM

World - International
5/20/2018 5:00:24 PM

World - Region
5/6/2018 9:59:02 AM
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have chosen a new and hawkish leader, refocusing attention on their intentions

World - Region
3/9/2018 11:01:47 AM
Increased stability in Iraq after the forthcoming parliamentary elections should translate into the greater unity and stability of the state and its institutions

Arts & Culture - Screens
12/13/2017 9:05:37 PM

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