Discovering an ancient religion in the mountains of Iraq, specifically in Northern Iraq, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan, ...

Yazidis (Yezidis) are an endogamous minority community who speak Kurmanji and are indigenous to Kurdistan – a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a ...

Over the last week, the plight of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority has captured the world's attention. Thousands of Yazidis fleeing violent Sunni militants called Islamic State have been stranded on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Yazidi woman holds a flame during the Charshama Sor Red New Year ceremony at the Lalish temple in Iraq in April. For a community ...

NEW YORK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Yazidi-Americans, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, filed a lawsuit against French cement maker Lafarge on Thursday, accusing it of conspiring to ...

Editor's note: this story was translated from the original VOA Kurdish article. Years after the territorial defeat of the Islamic State militant group, hundreds of Yazidis remain missing in Syria, an ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — The fate of nearly 3,000 Yazidis taken captive by the Islamic State group in Iraq remains unknown, officials from Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government announced earlier this month.

The video examines the Yazidis, an ethno-religious community indigenous to Kurdish regions of northern Iraq, Syria and Turkey whose worldwide population is estimated in the transcript at between ...

On February 6, the remains of 104 Yazidis killed in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014 were brought home and laid to rest in the village of Kojo. These Yazidis were killed six years ago ...

For relatives of those killed by ISIS in Kojo, Iraq, in 2014, an opportunity to mourn at a proper burial was years in coming.Credit... Supported by By Jane Arraf Photographs by Ivor Prickett KOJO, ...