By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide, with most Yazidi refugees having fled to Iraq's Kurdistan Region and Syria's Rojava. [16][17] The persecution of Yazidis, along with other religious minorities, took place after the Islamic State's Northern Iraq offensive of June 2014. [18][19]

Defend International provided humanitarian aid to Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan in December 2014. In 2014, with the territorial gains of the Salafist militant group calling itself the Islamic State there was much upheaval in the Iraqi Yazidi population.

Mar 13, 2024 · More than 400,000 Yazidis fled their homes and tens of thousands took refuge on Mount Sinjar where they remained stranded and hungry for weeks. Over 3,000 Yazidis, mostly men and elderly...

Aug 2, 2024 · Without much warning, around 350,000 Yazidis were forced to flee their homes and many sought refugee on Mount Sinjar, a mountain that the Yazidi see as sacred. Hundreds of children and...

May 31, 2024 · 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.

Oct 13, 2021 · In Sharya, under the northern Iraq sky, around 18,000 displaced Yazidis shelter in 4,000 tents. Approximately 3,000 families call the camp their home, and the stench of rubbish hits you well...

Aug 3, 2023 · About 400,000 Yazidis fled to the Kurdish region of Iraq, and some 300,000 remain there, UNHCR says. Four months into their displacement, Fawziya’s family was able to move from Duhok to Kabartu...

Affirm its commitment to refugee resettlement as a life-saving mechanism to protect Yazidis fleeing persecution and unable to return to their homes or rebuild their lives in the country where they have initially fled.

Dec 6, 2021 · Today, official numbers say that roughly 360,000 Yazidi from the Sinjar region are currently living as internally displaced refugees while another 120,000 live as refugees in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia.

Some Yazidis managed to take refuge in the neighboring forests and mountain fastnesses, and a few of them managed to escape to distant places. [26] Many Yazidis from Sheikhan, who had fled from the Kurds but could not cross the Tigris river, gathered on the great mound of Kouyunjik, where they were persecuted and killed by Muhammad Pasha's men.