Sinjar massacre

PKK affiliates maintain presence in Sinjar under different names, Peshmerga commander says

A Peshmerga commander based in Sinjar in northern Iraq has said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is maintaining its presence in Iraq's Sinjar region despite Turkey's calls for its evacuation, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Next phase of Euphrates Shield operation to include Iraq: President Erdoğan

The next stages of the recently concluded Euphrates Shield Operation will be broader, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said April 5, suggesting that Turkey would move on areas in Iraq.

Speaking in a joint interview with NTV and Star, Erdoğan described the Euphrates Shield Operation as the first stage of Turkey's counter-terrorism road map, saying expanded stages would follow.        

ISIS photographic slave market of Yazidi women – and their stories (pics)

ISIS killed and enslaved vast numbers of Yazidi people, a religious minority. Their brutal death at ISIS hands came to be known as the Sinjar Massacre. Thousands fled, whereas in the villages the older women were killed while thousands of younger women were raped and sold into slavery.

Yazidi women, slaves of the calliphate (vid)

Ameena Saeed Hasan says that she has made it her mission to rescue as many Yazidi women as she can from ISIS captivity. ISIS fighters captured Sinjar despit it not having oil reserves for them to steal. Their goal was to take the region’s people. They captured thousands of women and children after killing them men in what the United Nations has criticized as genocide.

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