Iraq's National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji met with Yazidi leader Mir Hazim Tahsin Beg on Wednesday, discussing efforts ...

ISIS and other Islamist extremists are waging genocide, the most egregious of all human-rights atrocities, against Christians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, and other defenseless religious minorities ...

Nora’s testimony was instrumental in securing their convictions. “This is possible, it’s been done,” says Nobel Peace ...

August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s ...

And he had no identification and no travel documents. Ten years after Islamic State’s brutal campaign against the Yazidis spurred the United States to send its military back to Iraq to halt its ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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Daesh specifically targeted religious minorities, Yazidis and Christians, for destruction in an attempt to annihilate religious pluralism and establish a purely Islamic region, in accordance with ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Yazidis are a religious and ethnic minority, most of whom live in northern Iraq. They faced harsh persecution at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) group, who took over the region in 2014 and ...

On this weekend episode, our Iraq Bureau Chief Timour Azhari travels through the regions destroyed by ISIS, and speaks with the Yazidis still trying to find their missing loved ones, and bring ...