Yazidis

Executive Summary This joint report builds on 40 testimonies and statements collected between March and May 2023 on gross human rights violations in the Afrin region in the extreme northwest…

Executive Summary The presence of Yazidi (Ezidi) communities in Syria and the region dates back to ancient times.[1] As a result of multiple genocides, their once-large communities have diminished and…

On 29 June 2020, Afrin’s local council, operating under the Syrian Interim Government, announced it was laying the foundation stones for a new school on the ruins of the Yazidi…

Introduction Barava Khalaf Farho was 21 when she was captured with her two children in 2014 by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq’s Sinjar (also known as Shingal). she had…

Introduction Khanaf Uthaib, 30, didn’t seem to be happy, despite the fact of being broke free of the Islamic State’s (also known as Deash) compulsion after four years of bitterness.…

Introduction: Meditating in the endless fields of wheat-stretching as far as the eye could see- from the yard of the Yazidi House, Jihan Khairo Qasim, 19, was reliving the painful…

Preface: Rita Habib Ayoub, 26 years old, captivated by the agents of Islamic State, also known as ISIS[1] in 2014 in the village of al-Hamdani[2]south-east of the Iraqi city of Mosul,…

Preface: Parallel with the military operations Syrian Democratic Forces /SDF/[1] commenced on November 5, 2016 in order to wrest number of cities and towns of Raqqa province from the grip of…

Preface: With the escalation of military operations in Deir ez-Zur province[1] against ISIS[2], and after Syrian Democratic Forces/SDF[3] controlled Raqqa city, and wrested it from the grip of ISIS on  October…