On August 3, 2014, Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or IS) launched a devastating attack on Sinjar, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community, an ethno-religious numeric minority ...
Islamic State deemed the Yazidis’ ancient faith heretical. IS’s heavily armed fighters sought to kill or subjugate Yazidi followers after overrunning their heartland in Iraq’s northwestern ...
The Duchess of Edinburgh has warned that the devastation of conflict-related sexual violence continues long after the guns fall silent, as she offered a comforting hug to a Yazidi genocide survivor.
The statement said, "we hope next year's festival will be the festival of the liberation of all Yazidi areas, lands of Kurdistan, and especially that of the brothers and sisters still in the hands of ...
The Duchess of Edinburgh speaking to Yazidi survivor Awaz Abdi during her visit to view The Women Who Beat ISIS travelling photo exhibition (Aaron Chown/PA) The Duchess of Edinburgh has warned ...