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There is a disagreement among scholars and in Yazidi circles on whether the Yazidi people are a distinct ethnoreligious group or a religious sub-group of the Kurds, an Iranic ethnic group. [34] [35] Yazidism is the ethnic religion of the Yazidi people and is monotheistic in nature, having roots in a pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. [36] [37] [38 ...
On 8 August 2014, the US asserted that the systematic destruction of the Yazidi people by the Islamic State was genocide. [178] President Barack Obama had authorized the attacks to protect Yazidis but also Americans and Iraqi minorities. President Obama gave an assurance that no troops would be deployed for combat.
On August 14, 2007, the Yazidis in Iraq were victims of the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings in Sinjar, which killed 796 people. [9] On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Yazidis and abducting another 6,000 to 7,000 Yazidis women and ...
Earlier this year, Iraq's government ordered displacement camps in the Kurdish region housing thousands of Yazidis to be closed by July 30 and even offered payments of 4 million dinars (about ...
BAGHDAD — Khairi Ali Ibrahim can feel the danger rising. Ibrahim is a member of Iraq’s Yazidi religious community, one of the most persecuted and vulnerable minorities in the world.
SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good. She had yearned for that moment ...
Sinjar was predominantly inhabited by Yazidis before the arrival of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.. On 29 June 2014, the Islamic State declared a caliphate in the contiguous areas of Syria and Iraq it controlled, after it had made significant advances in northern Iraq during the Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014).
The estimated 400,000-strong Yazidi community in Iraq is a Kurdish minority whose faith combines elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Islam. Six years on: Yazidi survivors see 'only empty ...