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The militia was formed in Iraq in 2007 to protect Yazidis in Iraq in the wake of attacks by Sunni Islamist insurgents as the Malik Al-Tawus Troop. [10] The Sinjar Resistance Units took part in the August 2014 Northern Iraq offensive , killing at least 22 fighters of the Islamic State and destroying five armored vehicles in the vicinity of the ...
Yazidis, however, believe Tawûsî Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. [5] [10] [19] They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel. [5] [19] [21] [22] The Yazidis of Kurdistan have been called many things, most notoriously 'devil-worshippers', a term used both by unsympathetic neighbours and fascinated ...
Yazidis, however, strongly dispute this, considering him to be the leader of the archangels, not a fallen angel. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] According to Christine Allison: The Yazidis of Kurdistan have been called many things, most notoriously “devil-worshippers”, a term used both by unsympathetic neighbours and fascinated Westerners.
Some Yazidis were later escorted back to Iraqi Kurdistan by Peshmerga and YPG forces, Kurdish officials have said. [219] [220] Yazidi Peshmerga at the shrine of Sharaf ad-Din in the Sinjar Mountains, 2019. Captured women were treated as sex slaves or spoils of war; some were driven to suicide.
Dasini (Arabic: الداسنية al-Dāsinīyya; Kurdish: داسنی Dasnî) or Daseni, Tasini, Dasiki, is a Kurdish Yazidi tribe [1] and ethnonym of Yazidis. The tribe resided near Mosul, Duhok, Sheikhan, Sinjar and all the way to the west bank of Greater Zab river.
Though the presence of PKK, YPG and the Yezidi Kurd militias participating in the Sinjar Alliance has been covered by Kurdistan TV Broadcaster Rûdaw, both Kurdistan prime minister Nechirvan Barzani and president Massoud Barzani claimed the capture of Sinjar exclusively for the KRG's Peshmerga forces.
Many Yazidi villages were attacked by the Hamidiye cavalry and the residents were killed. The Yazidi villages of Bashiqa and Bahzani were also raided and many Yazidi temples were destroyed. The Yazidi Mir Ali Beg was captured and held in Kastamonu. The central shrine of the Yazidis Lalish was converted into a Quran school.
It is the holiest temple of the Yazidis. [5] It is the location of the tomb of the Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir, a central figure of the Yazidi faith. [6] The temple is above the town of Shekhan, which had the second largest population of Yazidi prior to the persecution of Yazidis by ISIL. [7]