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Germany’s lower house has recognized as “genocide” the 2014 massacre by the armed group ISIL (ISIS) against the Yazidi minority group in Iraq and Syria. The move by parliamentarians on Thursday condemned “indescribable atrocities” and “tyrannical injustice” carried out by ISIL fighters “with the intention of completely wiping out the …

A 29-year-old former ISIS terrorist Taha Al-Jumailly has been handed a life sentence by a German court for genocide and crimes against humanity over the persecution of the Yazidi minority, marking the first conviction of its kind. The Frankfurt court’s judgment marks the first time that a verdict has used …

A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined ISIS to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun. Presiding judge Reinhold Baier of the superior regional court in the southern German city handed down …

The kidnapped Yazidis rescue office in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region announced the latest statistics of ISIS crimes since 2014. The office said the number of Yazidis in Iraq was about 550,000, and the number of displaced people due to the ISIS invasion was about 360,000, while the number of those who …

A huge fire on Friday broke out in Shariya Camp of Duhok province, Northern Iraq where thousands of Yazidi IDPs live. According to the preliminary reports, more than 400 tents have so far burned and the firefighters are still working to extinguish the blaze. Local medical authorities said at least …

The administrator of the Snuny sub-district in the north of the Sinjar district, Khadida Jougi, said on Sunday that the trafficking of the Yazidi abductees from al-Hol camp in Syria to other destinations is still ongoing. Jougi said, “trafficking networks are still in the process of smuggling the Yazidis from …

Experts say they established convincing evidence that ISIL committed genocide ‘against the Yazidi as a religious group’. A United Nations team investigating atrocities in Iraq found “clear and compelling evidence” that ISIL (ISIS) “committed” genocide against the Yazidi minority in 2014, its head has said, adding that the armed group …

Kidnapped by members of the so-called Islamic State six years ago, a young Yazidi woman was recently found in Turkey and returned to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Saturday, a relative said. Halima Hussein Khalaf was kidnapped in 2014 and was moved to Turkey after the group’s territorial collapse in both …

An Iraqi man went on trial in Frankfurt on Friday for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, on allegations that as an Islamic State member he was part of an effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority, and killed a five-year-old girl he purchased as a slave by chaining …

Five years ago on this day, the Islamic State (IS) terrorists carried out a barbaric attack on the Iraqi Yazidis’ hometown of Sinjar where they killed thousands of civilians and kidnapped several thousands more. The extremist group labeled the Yazidis as “infidels” to justify its horrific massacre in Sinjar. According …