Ezidi’s in Irak eisen bij de verkiezingen van 11 november meer dan één quota-zetel. Met de Ezidi Cause Alliance streven ze naar bredere vertegenwoordiging, politieke erkenning en de wederopbouw van Shingal na jaren van ontheemding en onderdrukking.
More than a decade after ISIS destroyed Shingal, Germany is urging Iraq to speed up reconstruction of the Ezidi homeland. Despite new laws and aid projects, most Ezidis remain displaced, and rebuilding has stalled amid political tensions and insecurity.
The documentary “Hawar, Our Banished Children” exposes the hidden trauma of Ezidi women raped by ISIS, who now search for the children born from these assaults. With 3,000 women still missing, the film highlights ongoing genocide, the rejection of these children by the Ezidi people, and the first European trials of jihadists for these crimes.
Nearly 300 long-forgotten photographs of the Ezidi people, taken in northern Iraq during the 1930s, have been rediscovered in an American museum archive. The images, showing weddings, shrines, and daily life, offer a rare glimpse into Ezidi heritage nearly erased by ISIS, and are now being shared with Ezidis in Iraq and across the diaspora.
Iraq has begun the long-delayed excavation of the Khasfa mass grave near Mosul, a vast sinkhole where ISIS executed and buried thousands during its rule. Believed to hold at least 4,000 victims — including Ezidis, soldiers, and civilians — the site is one of the largest and most complex in modern Iraqi history. Forensic teams face immense challenges, but the work offers families of the missing a fragile hope for answers and dignity after more than a decade of silence.
Am 12. August 2025 wurden die Überreste von 22 ezidischen ISIS-Opfern nach Sinjar zurückgebracht, nachdem sie in Bagdad per DNA-Analyse identifiziert worden waren. Dies ist die siebte offizielle Übergabe seit 2021 und zeigt sowohl das Ausmaß der Verbrechen als auch die fortlaufenden Bemühungen, Massengräber zu exhumieren und die Opfer gemäß ezidischer Tradition und dem Glauben an Sharfadin zu bestatten.
On 12 August 2025, the remains of 22 Ezidi victims of ISIS were returned to Sinjar for burial following DNA identification in Baghdad. This marks the seventh official handover since 2021, as authorities continue to exhume and identify victims from mass graves across the region. The process underscores the scale of the atrocities committed during ISIS’s 2014 assault and the ongoing efforts to allow families to bury their loved ones according to Ezidi tradition and the faith of Sharfadin.
On August 3, 2014, the Ezidi people of Sinjar were targeted for extermination by ISIS. Thousands were killed, enslaved, and displaced. The genocide aimed to erase not only lives, but identity, culture, and the ancient faith of Sharfadin.
Eleven years later, justice remains out of reach. Sinjar is still unsafe. Survivors are still waiting. And Iraq has yet to formally recognize the genocide—blocked by those who try to claim the Ezidis as their own.
We remember the victims.
We name the truth.
And we will not stop until justice is done and our people can return home safely. Ezidi Times will continue to speak. Loudly. Relentlessly. Truthfully.
Eleven years after the Ezidi genocide, survivors are still waiting—for justice, for reparations, and for meaningful support. This event in Washington, DC brought Ezidi voices and policymakers together to ask: what will it take to finally move from commemoration to action?
In a significant step toward holding perpetrators accountable, an Iraqi court has sentenced a former ISIS member to death for his involvement in the kidnapping of Ezidis during the 2014 genocide in Sinjar. The individual was found guilty of participating in the armed attacks and mass abductions that targeted the Ezidi people in northwestern Iraq.
L’humanité traverse l’histoire en portant les cendres de ses propres crimes. Chaque pierre posée dans des mémoriaux comme celui de Tsitsernakaberd murmure des vies éteintes et des promesses trahies — plus jamais ça, disons-nous, et pourtant, encore et encore, nous échouons. Tandis que la flamme éternelle brûle pour les Arméniens de 1915, elle projette une ombre jusqu’à Sinjar, où le peuple ézidi souffre encore des conséquences du génocide déclenché par l’État islamique en 2014. Onze ans plus tard, les blessures demeurent béantes, aggravées par la trahison, la négligence et des jeux politiques cyniques. Combien de mémoriaux faudra-t-il encore ériger avant que nous comprenions enfin que le souvenir ne suffit pas — que la justice et la protection doivent suivre, faute de quoi le cycle ne prendra jamais fin ?
Humanity walks through history carrying the ashes of its own crimes. Every stone laid at memorials like Tsitsernakaberd whispers of lives extinguished and of promises broken — never again, we say, yet again and again, we fail. As the eternal flame burns for the Armenians of 1915, it casts a shadow that reaches Sinjar, where the Ezidi people still suffer the consequences of the genocide ISIS unleashed in 2014. Eleven years later, the wounds remain unhealed, deepened by betrayal, neglect, and cynical politics. How many more memorials must we build before we finally understand that remembrance is not enough — justice and protection must follow, or the cycle will never end?
Two former Ezidi women enslaved by ISIS expose the dark past of Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, warning the West not to trust a man who once walked among jihadi commanders and presided over unspeakable horrors. Their testimony challenges the narrative of reform and calls for vigilance against repeating history.
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An Iraqi military official emphasized that the PKK disarmament process should include Sinjar, where armed groups loyal to the PKK remain active. The official stressed that these groups must be part of any agreement. The PKK began destroying weapons in May, a move welcomed by Turkey as “a new era.”
Efforts to trace thousands of Ezidis abducted during the 2014 Sinjar genocide remain stalled amid political inertia and structural obstacles, a new report reveals. More than a decade after the Islamic State’s genocidal attack on the Ezidi people in northern Iraq, the search for those still missing has yielded only Read more
The Center Genocide in Kosovo – An Open Wound has strongly criticized the Basic Court of Pristina for convicting former ISIS fighter Murat Dërnjanin of crimes against humanity, rather than genocide, despite clear international findings that ISIS committed genocide against the Ezidi people in Iraq. On July 4, 2025, the Basic Court of Read more
The Ezidi people endured brutal attacks in 2014 when ISIS forcibly displaced them from their ancestral homeland in northern Iraq, killing and enslaving thousands. ISIS falsely accused the Ezidis—whose ancient religion, Sharfadin, has roots in Mesopotamia—of worshipping Satan. After the military defeat of ISIS, many Ezidis remained in United Nations camps for internally displaced persons, relying heavily on humanitarian assistance.
El Comité Diplomático del Movimiento de Mujeres Libres Ezidíes (TAJÊ) ha lanzado un llamado urgente al Presidente de Irak y a organismos internacionales clave, solicitando la identificación de 19 mujeres ezidíes quemadas vivas por ISIS en Mosul en 2016. El movimiento también exige que esta atrocidad sea oficialmente reconocida como un acto de feminicidio.
Den diplomatiske komité for den ezidiske frie kvindebevægelse (TAJÊ) har sendt en officiel henvendelse til Iraks præsident og vigtige internationale organer. De kræver, at de 19 ezidiske kvinder, som blev brændt levende af ISIS i Mosul i 2016, bliver identificeret, og at denne grusomhed anerkendes som feminicid.
Den diplomatiska kommittén för den ezidiska fria kvinnorörelsen (TAJÊ) har skickat en brådskande vädjan till Iraks president och viktiga internationella organ. De kräver att 19 ezidiska kvinnor som brändes levande av ISIS i Mosul 2016 ska identifieras, och att denna grymhet ska erkännas som feminicid.