The Yazidi minority are primarily ethnic Kurds whose religion incorporates elements of many faiths. There are about 600,000 Yazidis in Iraq, with about 80 percent of them living in the towns of Sinjar and Bashiqa in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh. In 2014, when IS militants took control...
Their religion combines elements of Zoroastrianism with Sufi Islam. One of their important angels is represented on earth in peacock form, and was flung out of paradise for refusing to bow down to Adam. While the Yazidis see that as a sign of goodness, many Muslims view the figure as a ...
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In 1962 the Syrian government carried out a census in the Kurdish-dominated Al-Ḥasakah governorate in the northeast of the country. Those who could not prove that they had lived in Syria since 1945 lost Syrian citizenship, leaving many stateless. Individuals stripped of Syrian citizenship—whic...