Twelve years after ISIL’s massacres, thousands of Yazidis seek justice

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 04, 2026 · 60 words

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Twelve years after ISIL’s massacres, Yazidis seek justice NewsFeed Twelve years after ISIL’s massacres, thousands of Yazidis seek justice Iraq’s Yazidi community marked 12 years since ISIL’s assault on Sinjar, which the UN recognised as genocide.

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Why it matters

Thousands remain displaced or missing as many survivors continue to wait for justice and the chance to return home.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: Iraq’s Yazidi community marked 12 years since ISIL’s assault on Sinjar.

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Claim 1: “Iraq’s Yazidi community marked 12 years since ISIL’s assault on Sinjar”

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Wikipedia confirms the Sinjar massacre took place in August 2014. August 2014 to August 2026 is a period of 12 years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sinjar offensive was a combination of operations of Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK and People's Protection Units forces in December 2014, to recapture regions formerly lost to the Islamic State of Iraq an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2014_Sinjar_offensive

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sinjar (Arabic: سنجار, romanized: Sinjār; Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal, Syriac: ܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Shingar) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is locat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjar

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sinjar massacre (Kurdish: Fermana Şingalê or Komkujiya Şingalê) marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands of Yazidi men, women and children. I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjar_massacre

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Claim 2: “Thousands remain displaced or missing”

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While the provided evidence for claim 3 includes dictionary definitions, the evidence for claim 2 mentions that the community has been 'shattered' and that thousands were kidnapped (e.g., 6,417 according to the directorate of Yazidi affairs), which corroborates the claim that thousands remain missing or displaced.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yazidi genocide also known as the 74th firman by Yazidis, was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and force…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi_genocide

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis ( ; Êzidî), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis

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Claim 3: “Twelve years after ISIL’s massacres”

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Wikipedia and UN sources confirm the Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by ISIL starting in 2014. If the current date is August 4, 2026, then 2014 is exactly 12 years prior.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least 637 CE. Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji-speaking minority, indigenous to Kurdistan. The Yazidi religion has historically been r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Yazidis

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Claim 4: “the UN recognised as genocide”

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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and The Grayzone, explicitly state that the United Nations recognized ISIL's crimes against the Yazidis as genocide.

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