Yazidi

Commentary The United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated every year on Nov. 25. But its campaign runs until Dec. 10, a time frame ...

Commentary In early May, the U.N. released a report updating its investigation into the horrid crimes perpetrated by ...

VATICAN CITY—Civil and religious leaders of the Yazidi people have issued an open letter to Pope Francis on ...

SHARYA, Iraq—Hundreds of Yazidi families driven from their hometown of Sinjar in northern Iraq years ago are now ...

This town in northern Iraq was home to more than 88,000 civilians in 2013. Today, there are none ...

Kurdish fighters have uncovered two mass graves outside Sinjar, northern Iraq, that was ruled by the Islamic State ...

Thousands of women and girls have been brutally raped, beaten, and sold as slaves by the Islamic State.

MOUNT SINJAR, Iraq—The road to the battlefront plunges straight down the steep face of Mount Sinjar, whipped by ...

IRBIL, Iraq—Iraqi Kurdish forces battling Islamic State militants managed on Thursday to open up a corridor to Sinjar ...

During a key battle in the rugged mountains of a northern province earlier this month, U.S.-backed Syrian rebels ...

Dozens of Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga fighters will fly to Turkey on Tuesday and from there cross into the ...

Lawmakers in Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region Wednesday authorized peshmerga forces to go to neighboring Syria and help ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking advantage of the US-led coalition's war against the Islamic State group to ...

Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were ...

In a period of about six weeks spanning August and September 2014, President Obama dramatically revamped his Middle ...

In its battle for the Syrian town of Kobani, the Islamic State group enjoys a key advantage: a ...

The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major focal point in the war against the Islamic ...

SURUC, Turkey—The shells were already roaring down on the Kurdish fighters from the hill above Kobani when more ...

After two months, the U.S.-led aerial campaign in Iraq has hardly dented the core of the Islamic State ...

If you believe the cable-news-o-sphere regarding American extremists fighting with the Islamic State, you might think a plane ...

The outlines of a US strategy to roll back ISIS, or the ‘Islamic State’ as it styles itself, ...

In 1918, the Yazidis of Sinjar mountain received an ultimatum from Ottoman forces – to hand over their ...