Mount Sinjar rises from the arid plains of northwestern Iraq like a grassy sentinel — ancient, scarred, and unyielding. Today ...

August 3, 2025, marks the 11th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide - genocide perpetrated by Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has issued monthly salaries to more than 2,200 Yazidi women and girls who survived Islamic ...

PM Barzani marks the Yazidi genocide anniversary, honoring martyrs and Peshmerga, and urges the Iraqi government to implement ...

On the Yazidi genocide anniversary, the EU calls on Baghdad and Erbil to implement the Sinjar Agreement to address obstacles ...

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry urged international recognition of the 2014 assault against the Yazidi community as genocide.

The plight of Iraq's Yazidis 19 photos Many were killed or abducted by the militants near the Syrian-Iraqi border, but approximately 50,000 became trapped in the rugged Sinjar mountains.

Kurds Launch Offensive to Retake Sinjar From ISIS Thousands of Kurdish fighters began a military operation against Islamic State on Thursday, according to a Kurdish government announcement.

Sinjar, IRAQ—Atop a hill overlooking this Northern Iraqi town, the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, President Masoud Barzani, positions himself behind a podium constructed of sandbags.

A force of some 7,000 Kurds says it has wrested control of Sinjar from ISIS, ending in a few days an occupation that had lasted 15 months. The northern Iraqi town is a key junction in the ISIS ...

Plumes of smoke blackened the sky above Sinjar as Kurdish forces, backed by intense coalition air support, tried Thursday to take back the northern Iraqi town from ISIS. The operation includes up ...