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KOCHO, Iraq (AP) — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq's Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children were ...
The following is a list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements. Historically, Yazidis lived primarily in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. [1] However, events since the end of the 20th century have resulted in considerable demographic shifts in these areas as well as mass ...
Hope Village III, with a yet-to-be-determined location, will be designed by architecture students from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. William Beck. (Claretta Bellamy / NBC News)
After Tel Keppe was invaded, most Assyrians fled to Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region or fled Iraq entirely, causing more Arabs to settle in the town. The contested security between the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Shia paramilitary force PMU and presence of Arab-dominated militias in the Nineveh Plains has prevented the return of thousands of Tel ...
The camp in October 2019. The al-Hawl refugee camp (also al-Hol refugee camp, [1] Arabic: مخيم الهول للاجئين, Kurdish: کەمپی ھۆڵ, romanized: Kempa holê) [2] is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria, close to the Syria-Iraq border, which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [3]
"Hey there darling, hope you are okay. I'm fine and working away in Turkey. Hope you are feeling better now, love Dad," Haines wrote to his daughter on March 12, 2013, she said.
In 1977–78, in response to the 1975 Algiers Agreement, Iraq began clearing swaths of land along its northern border with Iran. During the first waves of clearances, residents were given five days to leave their homes and as many as 500 villages were then destroyed, mostly in the As Sulaymaniyah Governorate .
Tal Qasab (also Tal Qassab, Tel Qasab or Tel Kassab, Arabic: تل قصب; Kurdish: تهل قهسهب, romanized: Tel Qeseb, [2] [3] also known in Arabic as Baath) is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq. The village is located south of the Sinjar Mount. It belongs to the disputed territories of ...