A French jihadist was sentenced to life in jail on Friday for involvement in Islamic State group atrocities against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, the first such case in France. The Islamic ...

Sabri Essid was also found guilty of crimes against humanity after harrowing evidence from women enslaved by jihadist ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — The fate of nearly 3,000 Yazidis taken captive by the Islamic State group in Iraq remains unknown, officials from Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government announced earlier this month.

A French court on Monday began a landmark trial examining the Islamic State (IS) group’s campaign against the Yazidi ...

By sentencing Essid to life imprisonment for 'genocide' on Friday, the Paris court followed the example set by Germany, ...

Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of fasting. During my ethnographic ...

The FINANCIAL — One of the groups caught in the path of Sunni militants fighting under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are the Yazidis, members of a minority religious group ...

SINJAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him captive. The ...

Seven years ago, a brutal attack by ISIS forced hundreds of thousands of Yazidis to flee their homes in northern Iraq. Many were eventually imprisoned, killed or sold into slavery. Now, despite ISIS’s ...

Sabri Essid, presumed dead and tried in absentia, bought several Yazidi women, repeatedly raped them and deprived them of water and food — part of what prosecutors call a genocide.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious ...