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The Yazidi residents of Sinun in northern Iraq who returned home faced many challenges. Following ISIL's retreat from Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the region during late 2017 campaigns, both governments laid claim to the area. The Yazidi population, with only about 15% returning to Sinjar during the period, was caught in the political crossfire.
In the year 1832, about 70,000 Yazidis were killed by the Sunni Kurdish princes Bedir Khan Beg and Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz. [23] During his research trips in 1843, the Russian traveller and orientalist Ilya Berezin mentioned that 7,000 Yazidis were killed by Kurds of Rawandiz on the hills of Nineveh near Mosul, shortly before his arrival. [24]
Several thousand [33] Yazidis remained in the Sinjar Mountains located to the city's north, sustained by airdrops from a lone Iraqi helicopter, [65] while an escape road from the mountains northward to Kurdish areas was under Kurdish/Yazidi control. [82] American officials said that some of those Yazidis considered the Sinjar Mountains a place ...
“Without Sinjar, Yazidism would be like a cancer patient who’s dying,” said Hadi Babasheikh, the brother and office manager of the late Yazidi spiritual leader who held the position during ...
Soviet Yazidis were able to establish the first Kurdish theatre and radio station in history, in addition, the first Kurdish Latin-based alphabet was created by the Yazidi intellectual Erebê Şemo, who was also responsible for writing the first-ever Kurmanji novel in 1929 titled "Şivanê Kurmanca" (The Kurdish/Kurmanji Shepherd).
Between 1 and 15 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) expanded territory in northern Iraq under their control. In the region north and west from Mosul, the Islamic State conquered Zumar, Sinjar, Wana, Mosul Dam, Qaraqosh, Tel Keppe, Batnaya and Kocho, and in the region south and east of Mosul the towns Bakhdida, Karamlish, Bartella and Makhmour
Yazidis fled to the heights to escape IS, as they have done in past bouts of persecution. In Sinjar town, the district center, soldiers lounge in front of small shops on the main street.
Kurdish authorities refused to implement the closure order, saying that the areas the displaced peop The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says