Yazidi Kurdistan

IRAQ: Kurdish Female Warriors Combat Terrorist Fighters

The Zeravani are a Specialized Branch of the Kurdish Peshmerga Army. EXCLUSIVE CONTENT: Female Zeravani soldiers conduct several training exercises near Bnaslawa and Erbin, Iraq in August 2016. Includes archived and current interviews with Kurdistan’s Women Warriors. [continue reading].

(Graphic 18+) Iraq: Child Solider Escaped ISIL Tells His Story

Yazidi boys, suffering from several infections from mosquito bites while held by ISIL, wait with their mother inside a bus outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after having been freed by the extremists. Bram Janssen/AP Photo

In a bustling office in the suburbs of the Kurdish city of Dohuk, eleven-year-old Raed quietly begins to recount his ordeal at the hands of ISIL. It does not take long for his eyes to well up. Raed is one of the few children who have escaped from ISIS camps. Thankfully he was [continue reading].

Iraq: Internally Displaced Iraqis Exceeds 3.4 Million People

Children gather together in a refugee camp in Iraq. (Photo: Amy McTighe).

The latest report on Iraq’s refugee crisis from International Organisation for Migrants (IOM) identified five-hundred and sixty-nine thousand, seven-hundred and twenty-two (569,722) families forced to flee their homes from January 1st 2014 to the 31st of March 2016; [continue reading].