Nora’s testimony was instrumental in securing their convictions. “This is possible, it’s been done,” says Nobel Peace ...

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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

ISIS and other Islamist extremists are waging genocide, the most egregious of all human-rights atrocities, against Christians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, and other defenseless religious minorities ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

On this weekend episode, our Iraq Bureau Chief Timour Azhari travels through the regions destroyed by ISIS, and speaks with the Yazidis still trying to find their missing loved ones, and bring ...

Daesh specifically targeted religious minorities, Yazidis and Christians, for destruction in an attempt to annihilate religious pluralism and establish a purely Islamic region, in accordance with ...

August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s ...

And he had no identification and no travel documents. Ten years after Islamic State’s brutal campaign against the Yazidis spurred the United States to send its military back to Iraq to halt its ...

I said: ‘I will call you’ and he answered the call.” :: Sinjar, Iraq Islamic State deems the Yazidis’ ancient faith heretical – and has sought to kill or subjugate its followers ...

Al-Jumailly is the first IS member to be convicted of genocide against the Yazidis. During the trial his defence lawyers had denied the allegations. The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority ...