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Pentagon repatriates Guantánamo detainee held without charge for over two decades

The Biden administration announced late Monday that it transferred a Tunisian man who was never charged with a crime out of the notorious Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba, a move that came more than a decade after the detainee was approved for release. Al-Yazidi was the fourth Guantánamo detainee in two weeks to be transferred from the prison by …

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1 week, 3 days ago

US military releases long-held Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia

Al Jazeera

Transfer of Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the US army prison in Cuba is the fourth in two weeks by the outgoing Biden administration. Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi was repatriated from the United States military prison in Cuba to Tunisia on Monday, the US Department of Defense said in a statement. The transfer is the fourth in two weeks by …

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3 weeks ago

How Duchess Sophie has become the unsung hero of Christmas by taking the pressure off Kate Middleton

Daily Mail

The festive period is a busy time for many people, yet Sophie the Duchess of Edinburgh has been hard at work and attended several engagements in recent weeks. Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, during a visit to Disability Initiative's resource centre in Camberley earlier this month The Duchess walking with her arm around Yazidi survivor Awaz Abdi in November Sophie, …

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A Dutch woman who kept a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria is imprisoned for 10 years

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch court has convicted a woman of crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. The Hague District Court on Wednesday found Hasna A. guilty of multiple offenses for traveling to Syria in 2015, to join the Islamic State group. “Thousands of …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Jihadi bride jailed for keeping Yazidi slave while in Syria

Dutch News

A woman from Hengelo who went to Syria in 2015 and married an IS fighter has been jailed for 10 years for crimes against humanity, endangering the life of her son and membership of a terrorist organisation. The sentence is the longest handed down to a Jihadi bride by a Dutch court, and reflects the fact that Hasna A had …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Hengelo woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria

NL Times

For the first time in the Netherlands, a Dutch woman has been convicted of slavery, classified as a crime against humanity by the court in The Hague. Hasna A., a 33-year-old ISIS bride from Hengelo, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for membership in the terrorist organization, endangering her minor child, and enslaving a Yazidi woman. Two Yazidi women …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Genocide survivor was robbed in London just hours after meeting Duchess of Edinburgh

Daily Mail

A genocide survivor who met the Duchess of Edinburgh last week was robbed just hours later, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Awaz Abdi, 22, was kidnapped by Isis and held prisoner as a young child in Iraq in 2014 before escaping and moving to Germany in 2015. The Duchess of Edinburgh speaking to Yazidi survivor Awaz Abdi on November …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Yazidis Seek India Support at UNSC

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: A delegation of the Yazidi community, which faced severe atrocities at the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Iraq’s Sinjar province, has arrived in Hyderabad on a special invitation from the organisers of Lokmanthan to take part in the national conclave and display their ancient traditions which are similar to those of the Hindus. The delegation of Yazidi National …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Yazidi Captive Speaks Out: Eating Human Meat, Selling Women to Fighters

Hindustan Times

Former Islamic State captive Fawzia Amin Sido has recounted the horrors she endured during her decade-long captivity by ISIS. She spoke about being forced to eat meat of Yazidi babies, with some women suffering heart failure and dying due to starvation. Sido was also sold to multiple jihadi fighters, including Abu Amar al-Makdisi, who fathered two children with her.

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Yazidi Woman's Horrors Under ISIS and Hamas: A Story of Survival and Resilience

Op India

A 21-year-old Yazidi woman named Fawzia Amin Saydo was recently rescued from Gaza after being held captive by ISIS and Hamas for 10 years. Her release was facilitated by human rights activists and the Israeli government after a video of her, pleading for help, went viral on social media. The Israeli public broadcaster published exclusive recordings of Fawzia Amin Sido, …

3 months ago

Yazidi woman kidnapped at 11 and held hostage in Gaza by Isis militant for a decade finally rescued and sent home

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A 21-year-old Yazidi woman who …

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3 months ago

State Department describes US role in helping escaped Yazidi woman flee Gaza

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The State Department said on Thursday that US officials had …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Iraq’s Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return

Associated Press

KOCHO, Iraq — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq’s Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Now the survivors are coming back to Kocho, where Yazidi community leaders on Thursday announced plans for an internationally funded new village nearby to house those displaced in what was one of the bloodiest massacres by the Islamic State group against their …

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5 months, 1 week ago

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children

Associated Press

DOHUK, Iraq — The day they came to take her children, the young mother bundled them up against the cold. “A lot of our problems are still pending, like missing people, mass graves, justice, reconciliation, return, everything,” said Natia Navrouzov, executive director of Yazda, an NGO supporting the Yazidi community. Navrouzov agreed these cases were complex and said the community …

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5 months, 1 week ago

The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says

Associated Press

IRBIL, Iraq — The Iraqi government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Kurdish authorities refused to implement the closure order, saying that the areas the displaced people fled from …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Yazidi community uprooted by IS onslaught struggles to find stable homes

The Hindu

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 Ms. Ismail as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district, killing and enslaving thousands from the Yazidi religious minority. Karim al-Nouri, Deputy Minister for the Displaced, said this month that difficulties …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes

Associated Press

SINJAR, Iraq — 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 as they rampaged through Iraq’s Sinjar district, killing and enslaving thousands from the Yazidi religious minority. Rihan Ismail, 24, a Yazidi survivor who was kidnapped by …

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6 months ago

Iraq court sentences a widow of ISIL leader al-Baghdadi to death

Al Jazeera

The woman was charged with collaborating with ISIL and keeping kidnapped Yazidi women in her home in Mosul. An Iraqi court has sentenced a widow of late ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death for her role in the armed group and for detaining Yazidi women, the judiciary has announced. She was accused of collaborating with ISIL and using her …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors struggle to rebuild lives

Al Jazeera

NGOs report that 200,000 are displaced in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, while thousands trapped in legal limbo in Europe. Ten years on from ISIL’s massacre against the Yazidi people, hundreds of thousands of displaced survivors are unable to safely return to their former homes in Iraq, two NGOs say in a new report. Many of the Yazidis interviewed in Greece had …

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11 months ago

US-backed Syrian fighters liberate Yazidi woman who was raped and forced to marry extremists

Associated Press

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held for a decade by the Islamic State group, where she was raped and forced to marry extremists, the Syrian Democratic Forces said Monday. The 24-year-old woman along with her son and daughter were rescued during an ongoing security operation by Kurdish fighters in Syria’s …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Claims of women raped at Nuh: What police say, what organisers and temple mahant say, and what toilet cleaners of ISIS are aiming at

Op India

On the 31st of July 2023, Islamists unleashed unbridled violence against Hindu devotees carrying out a Jalabhishek yatra organised by the VHP. When mass violence like the recent Nuh violence breaks out and Hindus come under severe, fatal attack by a Muslim mob, is one to imagine that it would take paid actors to speculate the atrocities that Islamists are …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Nine years after the Yazidi genocide, what’s next for survivors?

Al Jazeera

The implementation of a transitional justice framework in Iraq could address atrocities committed by ISIL. “The boys don’t help so much, but we watch films together and sometimes we go for picnics around the area or in Duhok.” “It’s not comfortable here,” Fawziya says. Many of these IDPs, Fawziya says as the sun beats down, have left the camps over …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The holiest place you've never heard of

BBC

In Pictures: The protectors of a 7,000-year-old faith Simon Urwin Lalish is a tiny mountain village in Kurdistan with a population of just 25. "Lalish is as sacred to the Yazidis as Mecca is to Muslims or Jerusalem is to the followers of Islam, Christianity and Judaism," said Luqman Mahmood, the director of visitor relations. "Another important facet of the …

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Pentagon repatriates Guantánamo detainee held without charge for over two decades

US military releases long-held Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia

How Duchess Sophie has become the unsung hero of Christmas by taking the pressure off Kate Middleton

A Dutch woman who kept a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria is imprisoned for 10 years

Jihadi bride jailed for keeping Yazidi slave while in Syria

Hengelo woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria

Genocide survivor was robbed in London just hours after meeting Duchess of Edinburgh

Yazidis Seek India Support at UNSC

Yazidi Captive Speaks Out: Eating Human Meat, Selling Women to Fighters

Yazidi Woman's Horrors Under ISIS and Hamas: A Story of Survival and Resilience

Yazidi woman kidnapped at 11 and held hostage in Gaza by Isis militant for a decade finally rescued and sent home

State Department describes US role in helping escaped Yazidi woman flee Gaza

Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

Iraq’s Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children

The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says

Yazidi community uprooted by IS onslaught struggles to find stable homes

Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes

Iraq court sentences a widow of ISIL leader al-Baghdadi to death

Ten years after Yazidi genocide, survivors struggle to rebuild lives

US-backed Syrian fighters liberate Yazidi woman who was raped and forced to marry extremists

Claims of women raped at Nuh: What police say, what organisers and temple mahant say, and what toilet cleaners of ISIS are aiming at

Nine years after the Yazidi genocide, what’s next for survivors?

The holiest place you've never heard of