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Al-Monitor
March 12, 2018
“There is the question of the PKK presence in areas like Qandil and Sinjar,” Erdogan said. “As Turkey, we are ready to engage in joint struggle in those places.” Abadi offered in response, “Our duty is to ensure the territorial integrity of Iraq and combat terror organizations that threaten not only Iraq but theÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 12, 2018
Bilgay Duman, a Middle East expert at the Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM), said that the PKK, which is active in northern Iraq's Sinjar and regions around Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah and Tuzhurmatu, poses serious threats. Duman said the PKK infiltrated Iraq on the pretext of fighting DaeshÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 11, 2018
The Mosul local council has given PKK terrorists a 10-day ultimatum to leave northern Iraq's Sinjar district, according to the council chairman. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Sunday, Bashar al-Kiki said government buildings in Sinjar were under the control of PKK terrorists. “The council does not acceptÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 5, 2018
This image released by the the Mass Graves Directorate of the Kurdish Regional Government shows a human skull in a mass grave containing Yazidis killed by Islamic State militants in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in May, 2015. An analysis by The Associated Press has found 72 mass graves leftÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
February 27, 2018
The PKK terrorist group is using civilians from Iraq's Sinjar district as human shields in Syria's northwestern Afrin district, an Ezidi Peshmerga commander in Sinjar said Tuesday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Kasim Sesho said PKK terrorists had been sending young Ezidis from Sinjar to conflict zones inÃâà...
GetReligion (blog)
February 26, 2018
Isis came into Sinjar at dawn, with the intention of wiping out Yazidism in Iraq. The group's Research and Fatwa Department had declared that, unlike Christians or Shia Muslims, Yazidis were a “pagan minority.” The Kurdish soldiers retreated without warning, after determining that their position wasÃâà...
Buffalo News
February 25, 2018
Then ISIS soldiers arrived in Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014. They forced her and her family and her neighbors into the front loader and drove them two hours into Syria. "The first thing they told us was that we had to change our faith and start reading the Koran," Alqasim recalled. "They said if you are not goingÃâà...
CGTN America (blog)
February 24, 2018
They were on their way to Sinjar mountains, where the Yazidis live. They saw from the car window that many villages had been destroyed and abandoned. It isn't difficult to imagine just what happened there. A memorial place marking those killed and writings on the wall, a reminder of the brutal massacreÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
February 23, 2018
The Iraq-based Ezidi Spiritual Council strongly condemns the PKK terrorist group's practice of recruiting young Ezidis in Sinjar and sending them to fight in northern Syria's Afrin district, according to council chairman Kerim Suleyman. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Friday, Suleyman called on theÃâà...
LobeLog
February 20, 2018
Seized by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in August 2014, Sinjar, a majority-Yazidi district on Iraq's north-western border with Syria, has been the scene of tragedy: a genocidal campaign of killings, rape, abductions and enslavement, and the surviving community's exodus to safer-ground camps in the adjacentÃâà...
The Sun Daily
February 19, 2018
BAGHDAD: Iraq must stabilise the northern region of Sinjar to help the Yazidi minority brutalised at the hands of the Islamic State group return home, the International Crisis Group said Tuesday. A report by the conflict analysts said Baghdad must set up a local administration and mediate between factionsÃâà...
The New Yorker
February 19, 2018
Growing up in northwestern Iraq, Hadi Pir often went to Mt. Sinjar for solace. As a Yazidi, a member of an ancient religious minority, he believed that the narrow mountain was sacred, central to the Yazidi creation myth. Aside from the mountain, the region where the country's six hundred thousand YazidisÃâà...
NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS
February 14, 2018
Before ISIS, the Yazidi community in Sinjar was one of the poorest and most underdeveloped groups in Iraq. In some villages, it was considered improper for girls to go to school. But now, young Yazidi women like Hussin have resolved to take their future into their own hands. "It was a new experience and itÃâà...
New York Times
February 10, 2018
3, 2014, the Islamic State invaded the Sinjar region in northern Iraq with the mission of exterminating the Yazidis, whose numbers are estimated to be between 400,000 and 500,000. Our religion dates back to ancient Mesopotamia and preserves pre-Islamic practices. Because of that, the Islamic StateÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
December 31, 1999
Cracks have appeared in the relationship between armed Ezidi groups and PKK terrorists in Iraq's northern Sinjar region after the latter demanded Ezidi support for the PYD -- the PKK's Syrian affiliate -- in Syria's Afrin, an Ezidi official said Thursday. Qasim Shasho, an Ezidi Peshmerga commander, toldÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
December 31, 1999
The PKK terrorist group is using civilians from Iraq's Sinjar district as human shields in Syria's northwestern Afrin district, an Ezidi Peshmerga commander in Sinjar said Tuesday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Kasim Sesho said PKK terrorists had been sending young Ezidis from Sinjar to conflict zones inÃâà...
Daily Sabah
December 31, 1999
The PKK terrorist group is using civilians from Iraq's Sinjar district as human shields in Syria's northwestern Afrin province, an Ezidi peshmerga commander in Sinjar said yesterday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Kasim Sesho said PKK terrorists had been sending young Ezidis from Sinjar to conflictÃâà...
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