Sinjar was recaptured in a major operation by forces from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, with air support from the US-led coalition on 13 November. Pouilly told reporters in Geneva that there ...

The UN children's agency has expressed "extreme concern" over reports that 40 children from Iraq's ... fled into the mountains after the Islamic State (IS) overran the town of Sinjar on Sunday.

ISIS militants are believed to have kidnapped more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls as they overran the Sinjar mountains in ...

Iman was taken by the I-S group from her village of Kocho in the Sinjar district of Northern Iraq at five years old ... tens of thousands fleeing to the Sinjar Mountains, trapped for weeks without ...

Scenes from the now destroyed city of Sinjar, in Iraq. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images) Credit: Giles Clarke/Getty Images Ten years have passed since the I-S-group attacked Sinjar in northern ...