Yesterday marks Nowruz, the new year holiday for many people across the globe, including communities in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran and Kazakhstan

The director of Ezidi affairs, Khayri Buzani announced that Mir Tahsin Beg, a Yazidi leader died on Monday morning in Hanover Germany after he was hospitalised last week.

An Ezidi mother and her three children from the Sinjar district in Iraq were rescued in Syria from Islamic State (ISIS) captivity and returned to her family.

Turkey's airstrikes, which mainly focus on the northern Iraqi countryside, have targeted positions held by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), although civilian lives have also been lost.

Displaced Iraqis from other regions of the country to the northern Duhok Province have made a positive contribution to the local economy.

Orphanages have been established in Dohuk Province to accommodate the Yazidi children orphaned by ISIS who hail from Mount Sinjar.

The Iraqi Central Government has begun implementing its order to remove customs checkpoints between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and other Iraqi cities. Baghdad has also added that no taxes are to be levied on the goods on their way to central and southern Iraq.

Dr Nagham Nawzat, a Yazidi gynecologist, has provided life-saving support to around 1,200 Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS. Dr. Nawzat is a volunteer at the Duhok Survivors Centre, where she provides health services to the women.

About 3 million voters were invited to choose 111 deputies, out of 673 candidates belonging to 29 political entities, in the parliament of Kurdistan.

Amid objections to timing, campaigning for Kurdistan Region's Parliamentary elections has kicked off on Tuesday. Voters will be seeing election campaigns scattered throughout the region, of nominees running to win one of the 111 seats in the Kurdish parliament.

Four years after the Yazidi genocide in Iraq, survivors suffer from suicidal tendencies, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders

After the liberation of their areas from ISIS, the Ezidis in Nineveh Province are rebuilding their holiest temple, the Temple of Lalish. The reconstruction initiative was led by the Ezidis spiritual leader Baba Chawish and funded by private donors and Ezidi charities.

A psychological centre in Dohuk, northern Iraq, is attempting to help Yazidi children overcome the painful memories of the past under ISIS.

Yazidi children who were captured by ISIS recount their experiences living as slaves.

Since the military operations to liberate Mosul began in October of the last year, the number of internally displaced persons...

Duhok – (IraqiNews.com) Nineteen people from the ethno-religious Yazidi minority have been set free from Islamic State captivity, an official...