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Rana Sulaiman Halo, 22, founded and leads the Ashti choir with support from the AMAR Foundation, a British charity. She has lived in the camp since 2014.

'We Will Never Break': In Iraq, A Yazidi Women's Choir Keeps Ancient Music Alive

Apr 04, 2021
Women from Iraq's Yazidi minority get together to perform centuries-old sacred songs. They've survived captivity by ISIS and loved ones' deaths. "They are trying to heal," says a Yazidi politician.
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Life After ISIS: The Struggle And Survival Of Yazidis
Nofa Khudeda (left) and a neighbor in the village of Tel Qasab on the day Khudeda and her husband returned after six years in a camp for displaced Yazidis. Khudeda and her husband, Ali Edo, repaired and renovated the house, which had been looted by ISIS

With No Options, Displaced Iraqi Yazidis Return To Homes Destroyed In ISIS Fight

Dec 03, 2020
Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling to be home," says a Yazidi woman who recently arrived.
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Iraqi workers and international investigators excavate a mass grave known as "the mother's grave" in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in October. The grave in the village of Solagh is believed to hold more than 80 bodies of women ISIS considered too ol

'Nothing Left In The World Except These Bones': Yazidis Search For Mothers' Remains

Dec 02, 2020
Investigators have discovered 17 mass graves containing bodies of some of the 3,000 Yazidis killed by ISIS. For survivors, a grave with remains of older and pregnant women prompts a special anguish.
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Kamo Zandinan says goodbye in the Mosul orphanage to a 10-year-old girl she believes is her daughter Sonya, taken from her by ISIS six years ago. The girl was rescued by police in March from an Arab family to whom she was not related. Zandinan is waiting

A Yazidi Woman Searches For Her Lost Daughter, Kidnapped By ISIS 6 Years Ago

Nov 24, 2020
ISIS fighters tore Kamo Zandinan's 4-year-old daughter Sonya from her arms in 2014. Zandinan, now a refugee in Canada, recently returned to Iraq to meet the 10-year-old girl she believes is Sonya.
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Life After ISIS: The Struggle And Survival Of Yazidis
About 200,000 displaced Yazidis are in camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many are waiting for help to rebuild homes damaged or destroyed by ISIS in 2014.

A Yazidi Survivor's Struggle Shows The Pain That Endures After ISIS Attack

Aug 08, 2020
Six years after ISIS committed genocide against Iraq's ancient religious minority group, the Yazidis are not getting the help they need to recover.
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Caregiver Fajriya Khaled holds a child at an orphanage in northeastern Syria, home to 41 children of Yazidi mothers and ISIS fathers. The Yazidi community in Iraq forces the women to leave their children behind if they want to return home.

In Syria, An Orphanage Cares For Children Born To Yazidi Mothers Enslaved By ISIS

Jun 06, 2019
Because their fathers were ISIS fighters, the Yazidi community rejects the children and forces their mothers to give them up. Some willingly do so, but others are desperate for news of their children.
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Ibrahim, 2, in northeastern Syria a few hours after his freed Yazidi mother returned to Iraq without him. Ibrahim's father was an ISIS fighter. Although his mother wanted to take him home, the Yazidis do not allow children of ISIS fathers to live with th

Freed By ISIS, Yazidi Mothers Face Wrenching Choice: Abandon Kids Or Never Go Home

May 09, 2019
Women kidnapped by ISIS five years ago are now being freed. But the Yazidi community does not allow children born in captivity of militant fathers to return with them.
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Mazen (right), 13, and his brother Mezban in a camp for displaced Yazidis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Mazen was freed recently, five years after being kidnapped by ISIS. He was found in Baghouz, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria. His brother was als

Freed From ISIS, Few Yazidis Return To Suffering Families, Many Remain Missing

Mar 14, 2019
As ISIS loses territory and captives are rescued, broken Yazidi families hold out hope that their loved ones could still return.
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Human rights activist and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad announced she is engaged to a fellow activist.

Once Held Captive By ISIS, Nadia Murad Is Now Engaged

Aug 22, 2018
She escaped from forced sexual slavery and became a voice for captive women and girls. Now a United Nations goodwill ambassador, Murad has announced that she is marrying a human rights activist.
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Kolecha, fig-and-nut-filled cookies, are on the feast table at every eid.

For Yazidis In U.S., New Year Holiday Brings Taste Of Lamb And The Home They Fled

Apr 15, 2018
Like other spring holidays, Sere Sal is about fertility and new life. For Yazidi refugees who fled genocide at the hands of ISIS in Iraq, cooking the foods of the holiday is a way to re-create home.
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Shireen Hassam, whose 2-year-old daughter died in January of malnutrition and dehydration. Her husband Osman Barkat, lying down, was wounded in an explosion near Sinjar in December.

Yazidis Remain In Fear On Iraq's Mount Sinjar After Attempted Genocide

Mar 29, 2018
When ISIS invaded their villages in northern Iraq in 2014, tens of thousands of Yazidis fled for safety. Now their community leader says over 4,000 remain up on a mountain.
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Desbois visits the mass graves of Yazidis in Sinjar, a Kurdish region of Iraq.

After Documenting Nazi Crimes, A French Priest Exposes ISIS Attacks On Yazidis

Mar 18, 2018
Patrick Desbois has spent the last 15 years uncovering details of Nazi massacres in Eastern Europe and Russia. Using the same methods, the priest is now uncovering ISIS crimes against Yazidis.
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A camp for displaced Yazidis and other Iraqis in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in 2015. Many of them have been unable to return home to Sinjar where ISIS killed and kidnapped thousands of members of the ancient religious minority.

Yazidi Women Finally Go To School, Defying Former ISIS Rulers — And Their Own Parents

Feb 14, 2018
Some villagers considered it improper for girls to go to school. Now, after surviving the reign of ISIS, young Yazidi women in Iraq's Kurdistan region are getting an education.
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Abdullah Shrim, a former beekeeper, is credited with rescuing more than 300 Yazidi women and children held captive by ISIS.

This Man Has Freed Hundreds Of Yazidis Captured By ISIS. Thousands Remain Missing

Jan 18, 2018
His phone rarely stops ringing. Most calls and messages are from other Yazidis in Iraq's Kurdistan region, asking for help to find their relatives. Others are from people threatening to kill him.
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Malala meets with Yazidi teenagers near Dohuk in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Members of this ancient religious minority were targeted by ISIS. Militants killed Yazidi men and kidnapped and enslaved girls and women. The families are still displaced and

For Malala, Now 20, Birthdays Are Best Spent With Girls Who Dream Big

Jul 30, 2017
The world's youngest Nobel laureate spent her 20th birthday this month with displaced Yazidi girls in northern Iraq. She spends each birthday with girls who are struggling to get an education.
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Siblings Ibrahim and Evan  visit the home of their aunt December 27 in Bakhdida, Iraq, southeast of Mosul. The Islamic state burned the home, looted their parents home and destroyed or vandalized every church in Bakhdida. With a population of 50,000, it

Global Powers' Commitment To Intervene In Genocides May Be Waning

Dec 29, 2016
The U.N. endorsed the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine in 2005, calling on world powers to stop atrocities. But the secretary general says there's no longer global solidarity on the agreement.
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Dr. Khansa Shamdeen is from Syria, and came to help displaced Yazidis in northern Iraq. She stayed on Mount Sinjar through a long, hard winter, enduring an ISIS siege and providing basic health care. She says, "I came here of my own free will, so I never

Targeted By ISIS, These Yazidis Refused To Leave Their Beloved Mountain

Nov 23, 2015
After ISIS took their villages in Iraq, hundreds of members of the religious minority survived on wild plants and tomato paste through a bitterly cold winter on a mountain they consider miraculous.
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Trucks loaded with household appliances line up on their way out of Sinjar city. Iraqi Kurdish soldiers said they tried to stop people from leaving with suspected looted goods. But soon, the trucks outnumbered the soldiers and they let them through.

An Iraqi Town Is Retaken From ISIS, And Looting And Retribution Begin

Nov 16, 2015
Yazidis and Kurds have retaken the Iraqi town of Sinjar, which fell to ISIS last year. Yazidis, who have been brutally targeted by ISIS, now warn of dire consequences for those in ISIS-held villages.
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In 'Escaping ISIS,' An Underground Railroad Forms To Save Yazidi Women

Jul 14, 2015
A new Frontline documentary explores what life is like for the girls and women who have been enslaved by Islamic State militants, and also tells the story of those fighting to free them.
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An identification card lies in the dirt in Hardan in December.

In A Somber Homecoming, Yazidis Grieve And Watch Over Their Dead

Feb 15, 2015
With the Islamic State pushed back, Iraq's Yazidis are returning to their villages — and to mass graves. Now, they guard the remains and are calling on the U.N. to document the killings.
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Wedat Kasim and her family stayed on Mount Sinjar through the long siege, from August until December.

ISIS May Be Gone, But Life Has Yet To Return To Normal In Northern Iraq

Feb 15, 2015
The remote town of Snuny was recently liberated from ISIS. But aside from Kurdish and Yazidi militia men, very few people have ventured back. There are no services, and the ISIS threat is still real.
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The stone pillar at the center of this temple is where Yazidi worshippers bring their prayers. "During the siege, we came here every day and asked God to save us," says a fighter named Shamwa Edo.

Outmanned And Outgunned, Fighters Defend Yazidi Shrine Against ISIS

Feb 13, 2015
Led by a celebrated Yazidi fighter, a small band of Kurdish peshmerga survived a months-long ISIS onslaught. Unlike others in Syria and Iraq, this sacred place still stands, nearly unscathed.
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A mentally disabled Yazidi man is carried to a bus that will bring him to the Kurdish city of Dohuk, after being released by Islamic militants, in Alton Kupri, outside Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sunday.

ISIS Frees 200 Elderly Yazidis; Reportedly 'Too Expensive To Feed'

Jan 18, 2015
The mostly infirm refugees from the religious minority were released by the self-declared Islamic State. Speculation is that they had become a burden to the militants.
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