Iraqi authorities will begin identifying the remains of 141 people exhumed from mass graves in the Yazidi region of Sinjar, the head of Baghdad's forensic office said Thursday. "The remains will first be examined, and then DNA samples will be taken to compare with samples gathered from ...
The woman, identified by Iraq's Foreign Ministry as Fawzia Amin Sido, now 21, was abducted along with thousands of other Yazidi women from northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in August 2014. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post, she survived years of sexual and physical ...
The woman, identified by Iraq's Foreign Ministry as Fawzia Amin Sido, now 21, was abducted along with thousands of other Yazidi women from northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in August 2014. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post, she survived years of sexual and physical ...
BAGHDAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations top envoy to Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert highlighted the plight of the Yazidi minority and called for urgent action to ensure security and stability in Sinjar region in northern Iraq, a UN statement said Sunday. ...
More than 6,000 Yazidis were captured by Islamic State militants from Sinjar region in Iraq in 2014, with many sold into sexual slavery or trained as child soldiers and taken across borders, including to Turkey and Syria. Over the years, more than 3,500 have been rescued or ...
I saw nowhere else where the response was so geographically different, where in one region bars were open and in another the police arrested people for not having a mask. America is the only place using the virus to justify less public transportation. With the possible exception of China ...
gives us hope that more can be found.” The US Consulate tweeted “Congratulations to Nadia Murad and [the] President of the Kurdistan Region – Iraq Nechirvan Barzani’s Office for Rescuing Kidnapped Yezidis: for their successful efforts to rescue six Yazidi women from the hands of ISIS and...
PAUL SCHEMM
The woman, identified by Iraq's Foreign Ministry as Fawzia Amin Sido, now 21, was abducted along with thousands of other Yazidi women from northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in August 2014. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post, she survived years of sexual and physical ...
Most of those fleeing come from the many other ethnic and religious minorities that make up the mosaic of the region, including Chaldeans, Assyrians, Turcomen, Shi’ites, Shabbak, Kurds. Instantly made homeless, tens of thousands of these families have sought shelter in Iraqi Kurdistan. ...