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Raising Awareness with Fox News The U.S. is leading targeted airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic State in an effort to quash the terrorist group’s assault on religious minorities, but the Yazidi community in America says the U.S. must do more than simply provide food and...

Yezidi Girl Held by Militants Tells of Abuse and Suicides in Secret Call DUHOK, Kurdistan Region – On a hidden phone and in secret phone calls, a Yezidi girl held with 200 others as war booty by Islamic State (IS/ISIS) militants near Mosul painted a tragic picture of girls being...

Raising Awareness with Mid East Faces As Islamic State militants continue their brutal course in Iraq, the plight of minority Christians, Kurds and Yazidis has been increasingly escalating. Elias Kasem, a Yazidi community activist living in Phoenix, Arizona has been spending his...

Raising Awareness with Journal Star The photo had been circulating on Facebook for a few hours: a Yazidi man sprawled over the rocky ground, his severed head discarded face-down in the blood-caked dirt.. Rea...

Interview with PRI to Raise Awareness “They have put their life on the back burner,” Khalaf says. “They have been robbed of their livelihood.” Several members of her family have quit their jobs over the news. Others go to work but break down crying whenever the subject comes up ....

Raising Awareness with Associate Press Iekhan Safar moved from Iraq to Lincoln for the same reason that hundreds of Yazidis, a Kurdish religious minority, came to Nebraska’s capital city: to live near family, far from the dangers they’ve long faced as a persecuted...

Raising Awareness with The Daily Signal “There is no future for Yezidis in Iraq,” said Mirza Ismail, speaking of the suffering religious minority to which he belongs. Since the Islamic State terrorist group attacked his hometown in the Sinjar plain of northern Iraq on Aug. 2,...

RaisingAwareness Through Media When they cook, they weep, knowing their relatives in Iraq have nothing to eat. When they see their beds, they think of those trapped on a mountaintop who must sleep on nothing but rocks. . ....

Raising Awareness with Take Away Radio Many of Gulie’s relatives, and the relatives of those in her Lincoln community, are among the Yazidis trapped atop the peaks of Mount Sinjar, or similarly captive in the ISIS-held town below the mountain. . ....

Meeting with U.S Officials As ISIS Tells Yezidis to ‘Convert to Islam or Die,’ One Man Pleads for Help at White House In January, Mirza Ismail married his wife, Nofa Kamal, in Sinjar, Iraq, near the mountainous region where today thousands of Yezidi Iraqis are stranded. Read More...