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 ...

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 ...

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.

IS’s heavily armed fighters sought to kill or subjugate Yazidi followers after overrunning their heartland in Iraq’s northwestern district of Sinjar in 2014. By 2019, the U.S.-led coalition ...

Mirza Dinnayi, 2019 Aurora Prize Laureate for Awakening Humanity & Founder of House of Coexistence in Sinjar, explains how and why Sinjar has become a regional dispute involving Turkey, Syria and Iran ...

In turn, the Al-Arabia TV channel reports that the Turkish Air Force dropped about 20 bombs on PKK facilities in the Sinjar mountains in northwestern Iraq. The Kurdistan Workers Party is ...