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‘They don’t eat lettuce’: Youtuber explores a misunderstood community protecting 7,000-year-old tradition in northern IraqA new documentary by Sonny Side introduces the Yazidi people, an ancient religious minority. The film explores their unique faith, traditio...- Iraq's missing Yazidis: Inside the long search for Islamic State captivesYazidis in Iraq are rebuilding their lives after facing persecution by the Islamic State. Many were captured and enslaved, and families are...
- Forced to eat babies: Yazidi woman recalls horrific experience in ISIS captivityYoung Yazidi woman Fawzia Sido reveals her harrowing experiences as an ISIS captive, where she and others were forced to eat baby meat. Kid...
- Israeli strike in Beirut kills 9 as troops battle Hezbollah in southern LebanonAn Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Beirut killed nine people, including seven Hezbollah members. The conflict between Israel and Hezbo...
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife sentenced to death in Iraq; what was her crime and who was Baghdadi?The wife of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court. She was convicted for facilitating the kidnapping, illegal ...
- UN investigator: Contemporary slavery extensive and in ChinaHuman Rights Council Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokat adds that traditional enslavement, especially of minorities, is found in Mauritania, ...
- Iraq's election: How it works, main playersA new single-member constituency system is supposed to boost independents and reduce traditional political blocs, largely centred on religi...
- Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis: United Nations expertsKarim Khan told the Security Council the team also concluded war crimes were committed by the Islamic State group against predominantly Shi...
- In a northern town brutalised by Islamic State, Iraq tests its powerThe hoisting of the national flag in Sinjar, home to Iraq's Yazidi religious minority, is the result of a deal months in the making for the...
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad says pandemic raising violence, trafficking of womenThe 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, said curfews, lockdowns and travel restrict...
- Donald Trump asks Nadia Murad why she received the Noble Prize, and her answer left the US President stumpedMurad was forced to flee to Germany after ISIS attacked her Yazidi community.
- Nobel Peace Prize ceremony: Murad-Mukwege dedicate award to rape victimsDr Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad were awarded for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
- Climate, development tipped for Nobel economics prizeAs with the other Nobels, nominations and deliberations are kept secret for 50 years, so it's nearly impossible to know which way the prize...
- Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Denis Mukwege, ISIS survivor Nadia Murad for fighting sexual violenceMurad is one of an estimated 3,000 Yazidi girls and women who were victims of rape and other abuses by the IS army.
- Winners get ready as the Nobel season begins with Medicine PrizeNo Literature Prize will be given out for the first time in 70 years because of a #MeToo scandal.
- Two mass graves found in Yazidi district of IraqIn 2014, IS killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the community to abuse them as sex slaves.
- Islamic State: The money behind the monstrosityTo evade international anti-finance measures, the ISIS employs “the three C’s” to conduct illicit trade: cash, crude oil and contraband.
- David Cameron proposed sweeping new anti-terror laws to confront ISIS in Britain"Poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism is the root cause of the terror threat," Cameron said. "We will always act with urgency when need...
- US conducts massive airstrikes against Islamic State militants in IraqAmerican fighter jets and drones successfully conducted airstrikes near Irbil and the Mosul Dam, targeting militants, the Pentagon said.
- US will intervene when innocents are facing massacre: Barack ObamaUS President Barack Obama today said America would intervene everytime it could to prevent "massacre of innocent people".
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