Twelve years after the Islamic State's "genocide" of Yazidis in Iraq, Nadia Murad, a former sex slave of the jihadist group, ...

But the persecution of the Yazidis, including the buying and selling of women and girls, is a particular horror that has ...

Iraq’s Yazidi minority is in the spotlight Thursday after two women from the community won the European Parliament’s Sakharov human rights prize. Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar have spearheaded a ...

ISIS deliberately sought to destroy the Yazidi community because of its religious identity. The crimes included mass execution, torture, abduction, forced conversion, rape and sexual slavery, the ...

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Members of Iraqi security forces and displaced people living in camps, including minority Yazidis, cast their ballots Sunday in early voting ahead of this week's parliamentary ...

Cramped in a tarpaulin tent with his family of nine, Ali Mahmud remembers his spacious ancestral home in the northern Iraqi town of Bashiqa he last set foot in more than two years ago. “It was built ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Aydin Hadid Talal and his brother were captured by Islamic State in 2014 as the militant group launched its ferocious ...

A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli ...

KOCHO, Iraq (AP) — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq's Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were ...