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 ...

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.

While the Yazidis are glad to have Sinjar back, Ali said that there are still more than 1,000 kidnapped Yazidi women with ISIS fighters, being sold between militants "in exchange for a bottle of ...

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 ...

Kurdish forces have taken back the Iraqi city of Sinjar, after over 15 months of Islamic State occupation. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Kesling about the situation.

Marines, special forces landed on Mt. Sinjar to assess situation. Displaced Iraqi families from the Yazidi community cross the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing, in northern Iraq, on ...