Yazidis

‘They don't have to fight alone’: Why victims of jihadism are turning to the Jews

TERROR AFFAIRS: Jewish activist Charles Jacobs has launched a global coalition bringing together Jews, Christians, Yazidis and other minorities facing jihadist persecution.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
ISLAMIC STATE fighters wave jihadist flags in Raqqa, Syria, in June 2014. The persecution of religious and ethnic minorities by jihadist movements has prompted efforts to unite threatened communities, including Jews, Christians, Yazidis, and others, against a common enemy.
A view shows the conical temple roofs, courtyards and pilgrims at the Lalish sanctuary during the Jama'i festival in Lalish, Duhok Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on October 10, 2026; Illustrative.

Fourteen years after genocide, Yazidis may see stability in Iraq - analysis

The Yazidi region was largely abandoned by Iraq. The Yazidis remained, but they were divided.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
An abandoned improvised mortar system is seen on the side of a road in Sinjar, Iraq, with a Kurdish flag flying in the background, January 26, 2016

Yazidi fighters disarm in Iraq's Sinjar after a decade of division - what comes next? - analysis

Baghdad’s push to bring armed groups under state control is gaining traction with the YBS, unlike with Iraq’s more powerful, Iranian-backed militias.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
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 repeatedly driven from its ancestral homes and subjected to forced conversions, religious tradition has become an enduring expression of survival and continuity.

From forced conversion to genocide: How Yazidis carry centuries of persecution into exile

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: The Islamic interpretation of the Yazidi faith is what members of ISIS used to justify the enslavement of over 6,000 women and children and the murder of more than 5,000 people.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Yazidi survivors of ISIS rape have new hope after community ruling

For the children of survivors of ISIS rape and genocide, a long road home may be smoother - but hurdles remain in Iraq and Syria.

APRIL 28, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
CHILDREN FROM THE Yazidi community, who were recently freed after being captured by Islamic State fighters, ride on a back of a truck near Baghouz, Syria, earlier this week

9,000 ISIS fighters and 60,000 family members held in Syria - report

Those at the camp, who are mostly women and children, are viewed as ISIS “affiliates.”

APRIL 18, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
WOMEN AND their families surrender in the last ISIS-held area in Syria last month

Turkey hopes Iran, Iraq and Syria will help it strangle the PKK

On March 6, Turkey and Iran said they were planning to work more closely to confront the PKK.

MARCH 18, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Kurd Protest Syria 311

Yazidi and Shi’ite children celebrate freedom from ISIS

Since January, more than 20,000 ISIS supporters have surrendered to the Syrian Democratic Forces from the last ISIS-held enclave east of the Euphrates river.

MARCH 7, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
DESTROYED BUILDINGS in the city of Sinjar. There has been no reconstruction of Yazidi communities.

Who will help save the Yazidis?

Thousands of women and children are in danger of being brutally murdered, sold into sex slavery.

MARCH 4, 2019ByDAWOOD SALEH
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Yazidi activist Nadia Murad talks to people during her visit to Sinjar, Iraq December 14, 2018.

Yazidis rescued from ISIS face bleak future upon return to Iraq

Foreign ISIS members appear to receive more aid and better housing than Yazidi victims while fears mount that ISIS is using human shields in Baghuz.

MARCH 4, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A relative kisses a Yazidi survivor boy following his release from Islamic State militants in Syria, in Duhok, Iraq, March 2, 2019.

Survivors of ISIS genocide have nothing, four years later

A photo essay.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A general view of the Yazidi refugee camp in Mount Sinjar, Iraq February 4, 2019

Outrage in Syria, Iraq as ISIS members treated as celebrities in west

Ali Y. Al-Baroodi, who survived the ISIS occupation of Mosul, was shocked to see how ISIS members described their enjoyable life over the last few years.

FEBRUARY 19, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
PEOPLE FLEE fighting in Baghuz where the Syrian Democratic Forces are liberating areas of eastern Syria from Islamic State. (Reuters)

#WeRemember

As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, we must remember the victims – six million of whom were Jews – and consider how to stop such atrocities from occurring again.

JANUARY 26, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS visit the site of the Auschwitz death camp, during ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Poland in January 2018..

The plight of the Yazidis

Many Yazidis feel that the world has abandoned them to suffer alone.

JANUARY 21, 2019ByANTHONY AVICE DU BUISSON
The Sinjar genocide led to the displacement of thousands of Yazidis who now live in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq, as well as refugee camps in neighboring Syria and Turkey.