The Islamic Statea??s control of Mosul and the nearby area separated families for long stretches... READ MORE›
He said locals saw what happened in Mosul, where Iraqi troops surrendered the city to the Islamic State... READ MORE›
Both Islamic and Christian traditions show the devil as a fallen angel, which leads many people to believe the Yazidis are devil worshippers... READ MORE›
Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar have been honoured with the Sakharov Prize for their advocacy for women's rights... READ MORE›
Murad has also called for the recognition of the massacre of Yazidis as genocide... READ MORE›
Mosul residents confirm that enslaved Yazidis are still inside the city, where conditions for civilians are rapidly deteriorating... READ MORE›
But the coalition is expected to encounter fierce resistance from thousands of ISIS fighters in Mosul's urban center, armed with car bombs and improvised explosive devices... READ MORE›
Continue reading the main story Calculated Conquest The Islamic State's formal introduction of systematic sexual slavery dates to Aug... READ MORE›
Murad also called on the Islamic community around the world to do more to denounce ISIS... READ MORE›
When the Yazidis do come back from Isil they have nothing... READ MORE›
Kino, referring to the Kurdish enclave bordering Turkey whose encirclement by the Islamic State prompted American-led airstrikes that helped drive the group back... READ MORE›
Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar... READ MORE›
Since then, Kurdish forces backed by other Syrian armed groups have pursued Islamic State fighters as far their provincial stronghold of Raqqa... READ MORE›
In military circles, the Mosul offensive draws comparisons to two other cities where Iraqi forces wrested control from ISIS Ramadi and Falluja... READ MORE›
Desperate Iraqi Yazidis are joining the exodus to Europe... READ MORE›
The sudden fall of Sinjar to Islamic State militants in August 2014 devastated the Yazidi community... READ MORE›
The attacks in Paris suggest the Islamic State is capable of organizing devastating attacks in the West... READ MORE›
This in part explains why the Islamic State has uniquely targeted the Yazidi minority -- believed to number around 500,000 people in Iraq -- for sexual enslavement... READ MORE›
Elsewhere in Iraq, entire towns and villages are being abandoned by their Sunni Arab residents as Shia militias retake them from Isis... READ MORE›
In contrast to Mr Obama's ambivalence, Mr Putin has long harboured ambitions of strengthening Russia's position in the Arab world... READ MORE›
It is almost a year since thousands of Yazidis fled to Mount Sinjar, in northern Iraq, as Islamic State fighters entered their villages... READ MORE›
The complex in Aknalich is not intended to overshadow Lalish, the most holy Yazidi temple, about 36 miles north of Mosul in northern Iraq... READ MORE›
Soon after speaking to Cihad, Halo was put in touch with Abdullah, one of five leading Yazidi smugglers based in Duhok... READ MORE›
State Department officials said the United States has talked at the U.N... READ MORE›
American warplanes regularly strike Islamic State targets in Syria -- there were 34 airstrikes last week, according to the United States Central Command... READ MORE›
Islamic State committing genocide against Yazidis U.N... READ MORE›
Even when Daesh retreats from towns like Ramadi or Fallujah, the missing girls are nowhere to be found... READ MORE›
In my judgment Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in territory under its control Kerry said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group... READ MORE›
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq The young women had never used a camera before fleeing their homes and the claws of Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
Abu Muhannad denies being a member or supporter of Islamic State... READ MORE›
HOUSTON -- Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Tuesday that religious communities can play a role in achieving foreign policy goals around the world... READ MORE›
Up to 15,000 bodies may be buried in mass graves in Syria and Iraq - survey... READ MORE›
Kurdish Iraqi fighters launched a long-awaited offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar from the Islamic State group and in the first hours of the... READ MORE›
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, who opposed it, said Thursday that the government is now convinced that Daesh is conducting genocide against the Yazidis... READ MORE›
Turkey's 'end goal' is to create a safety zone in northern Syria to host a large number of refugees, analysts say... READ MORE›
Sinjar was captured by the Islamic State group in August 2014 shortly after the extremists seized Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and blitzed across northern Iraq... READ MORE›
AFTERMATH When Islamic State militants ordered them onto buses early on Saturday, the Yazidis thought they were being led to their execution... READ MORE›
The battles to oust the Islamic State group from strongholds in Iraq and Syria have not deterred the terror organization, according to a new report... READ MORE›
The Amaq news agency, the extremist group's media arm, claimed that the Islamic State launched 120 such assaults across Syria, Iraq and Libya in October... READ MORE›
Over the summer, Turkish forces intervened in northern Syria, targeting Islamic State militants but also acting as a curb to Kurdish territorial ambitions in the country... READ MORE›
This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... READ MORE›
Mosul has a population of 1.5 million, much more than any of the other cities captured by Islamic State two years ago in Iraq and neighboring Syria... READ MORE›
Tensions between the Kurds and Turkey may also be slowing operations against the Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›
5 Turkey and Syria The Turkish intervention in Syria has for now been confined to fighting the Islamic State and Kurdish forces... READ MORE›
Allies include Saudi Arabia and Turkey Enemies include Assad, Iran, Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State... READ MORE›
Islamic State holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces... READ MORE›
Conditions have worsened in the nearby city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, as rebels and Russian-backed government forces trade attacks... READ MORE›
A recording of an interview in Syria with 22-year-old Dean Carl Evans, from Reading, has been found after he died in battle last month... READ MORE›
Turkish officials say the suspected attackers had ties to Islamic State and were from Russia and the ex-Soviet central Asia states of Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan... READ MORE›
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