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  2. The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS ...

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    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

  3. Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State ... - AOL

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    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. Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail ...

  4. Threats of mass violence against one of the world’s most ...

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    In the ISIS onslaught of August 2014, as many as 5,500 Yazidis across Iraq and Syria were killed, according to the United Nations. Yazidis were also abducted and forced to convert to Islam; their ...

  5. Yazidism in Iraq - Wikipedia

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    [7] 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 ...

  6. Sinjar Resistance Units - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Sinjar massacre - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Young Yazidi woman rescued after 8 years as an ISIS prisoner

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    Now 18, the Yazidi girl was abducted from her village of Kocho, 15 miles south of Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014, Ali told CBS News. She was one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls believed to have ...

  9. Persecution of Yazidis - Wikipedia

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    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.