Posts Tagged: Yazidi
Yazidi Woman Freed from Gaza in US-led Operation After Decade in Captivity
A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq more than a decade ago was freed from Gaza this week in an operation involving...
World Jewish Groups Commemorate Seventh Anniversary of Yazidi Genocide by ISIS
Jewish groups from around the world commemorated on Tuesday the seventh anniversary of the Islamic State's (ISIS) genocide of the Yazidi people, a religious minority...
Pope Francis Meets Iraq’s Top Shi’ite Cleric, Visits Birthplace of Prophet Abraham
Pope Francis entered a narrow alleyway in Iraq's holy city of Najaf to hold a historic meeting with the county's top Shi'ite cleric and visited...
Yazidi Doctor Awarded for His Work Helping Women Calls for Justice
Yazidi families would not feel safe returning to their homes in Iraq until Islamic State militants accused of atrocities against the religious minority face justice,...
House Resolution Introduced to Create Safe Haven for Persecuted Minorities in Iraq
JNS.org -- A bipartisan resolution was introduced in the US House of Representatives in support of the creation of a safe haven for persecuted religious minorities in the...
Refugee Fleeing ISIS Massacre of Yazidis Laments World’s Focus on Gaza – ‘Save Gaza, Save Gaza’
New Yorker writer George Packer returned to Karim, the subject of a recent feature, to learn his frustration that while ISIS gets closer to...
