Mount Sinjar rises from the arid plains of northwestern Iraq like a grassy sentinel — ancient, scarred, and unyielding. Today ...

A parliamentary committee will hold its third meeting on the terror-free Türkiye initiative on Tuesday, while reports have ...

August 3, 2025, marks the 11th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide - genocide perpetrated by Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL, ...

After Sinjar was indeed retaken by forces from Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government known as Peshmerga and Yazidis serving with them on Nov. 13 this year, Sadiq decided to flee with his animals ...

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.

One Year on From the Sinjar Massacre, Yazidis Blast Lack of Action Over Hostages Published Aug 05, 2015 at 10:26 AM EDT Updated Apr 12, 2016 at 1:15 AM EDT ...

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.

SINJAR, IRAQ — Once an idyllic mountainside town, Sinjar lay in tatters on Friday, its streets strewn with rubble and the litter of war after Islamic State militants melted away in the face of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iraqi Kurds Advance Against Islamic State in Sinjar Offensive Breaks Siege of Hundreds of Yazidis By Ali A. Nabhan and Matt Bradley Updated Dec. 21, 2014 1:58 pm ET ...

A dead body, believed to belong to one of the Islamic State fighters, lays on rubble at an Islamic State former base that was hit by U.S.-led air strikes near the town of Sinjar December 22, 2014.