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ISIS Suitors Knocked On Women’s Doors, Leader Offers Marriage Grants

Aug 30, 2014 05:01 AM EDT

Islamic State members reportedly have been knocking on doors of unmarried women in areas they control since July to ask for their hands in marriage, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights .

ISIS Militants Convert Dozens of Yazidis To Islam

Marcel Woo |

Aug 23, 2014 08:09 AM EDT

Dozens of members of the Yazidi religious minority have been converted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to Islam based on the video released by the militant group.

U.N. Plans Massive Humanitarian Aid For Displaced Iraqis

Ren Benavidez |

Aug 20, 2014 02:32 AM EDT

The United Nations refugee agency announced Tuesday that it is arranging its largest humanitarian aid for Iraq as Kurdish, Iraqi and American forces advance in Mosul Dam to break through the Islamic militant stronghold.

Syrian Kurdish Militants Train Yazidis To Fight Against Islamic State

Jin Tuliao |

Aug 18, 2014 12:08 AM EDT

Kurdish militants trained hundreds of Yazidis in several training camps in the eastern part of Syria to fight Islamic State militant groups in Iraq.

IS Commander: 'We Have More than 100 Yazidi Women and Children Captive"

Andy Vitalicio |

Aug 13, 2014 05:41 PM EDT

More than 100 women and children from the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar are in the hands of Islamic State fighters and have been taken to Mosul, the country's second largest city that had fallen into IS hands days earlier.

France Arms Kurds Against Islamic State

Cody Brooks |

Aug 13, 2014 05:25 PM EDT

France will provide arms to Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) in Iraq, President François Hollande's office said in a statement on Wednesday.

ISIS Wants Them Dead, But Who Are The Yazidis?

David Perry |

Aug 12, 2014 02:57 PM EDT

A massacre by Muslim extemists brought a little-known religion into the public eye.

A displaced man and a woman from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town

Iraq Rescues Yazidis From ISIS, Gives Aid

Cody Brooks |

Aug 12, 2014 11:46 AM EDT

On Monday, a successful attempt was made by the Iraqi air force to rescue a few dozen Yazidis and supply humanitarian aid.

Displaced Yazidis take refuge in Dohuk province, August 7, 2014.

U.S. Considers Rescue Efforts For Remaining Yazidis Trapped In Mountain

Christl Leong |

Aug 11, 2014 11:35 AM EDT

With more than half of the 40,000 trapped Yazidis safely evacuated from Mount Sinjar, U.S. officials are working to rescue the remaining half who continue to suffer from thirst and hunger and are still at risk of being captured or killed.