The Yezidi boy known as S. was abducted by ISIS at the age of 9 and returned to his family at 12, a different person. Newsha Tavakolian—Magnum Photos for TIME ...

The Yezidi genocide devastated Iraq’s community 10 years ago − but the roots of the prejudice that fueled it were much deeper Story by Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University • 6mo ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Cathy Otten about With Ash on Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State, her book about the history and personal stories of the religious minority.

The Yezidi New Year—so far from being in the dead of winter—comes with the blossoms of spring. Thousands gathered to celebrate the Yezidi New Year festival on Wednesday night.

Iraq’s Yezidi and Christians have been under attack from ISIS since June 2014, with many of their villages within the Nineveh plains taken over by the black-clad jihadist army.

Two years ago, the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) swept across northern Iraq in a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against minority communities. They abducted thousands of Yezidi ...

One of the girls saw an ISIS fighter buying a Yezidi woman for $1,000. “I saw them take all of them, about 10 young women and girls [on different days]. Some were as young as 12 or 13, and up to ...

Nadia, a young Iraqi Yezidi who was abducted into slavery by members of ISIS, is photographed in the U.S. Kirsten Luce for TIME. By Charlotte Alter. December 20, 2015 6:00 PM EST.

(Beirut) – Yezidi fighters in Iraq allegedly forcibly disappeared and killed 52 civilians from the Imteywit tribe in June 2017, Human Rights Watch said today. Relatives of victims told Human ...